A Brief History of Germany (Brief History Of... (Checkmark Books))

A Brief History of Germany (Brief History Of... (Checkmark Books))

Jason Philip Coy

Language: English

Pages: 288

ISBN: 0816083290

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The story of Germany, a key player in global diplomatic and economic affairs, is crucial to our understanding of global history and the contemporary world. Covering more than 2,000 years of history, A Brief History of Germany provides a concise account of the events, people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped Germany from ancient times to the present. Basic facts, a chronology, a bibliography, and a list of suggested readings round out this insightful and comprehensive resource.

The Hunger Angel

Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie

Das Ungeheuer

The Routledge Handbook of German Politics & Culture (Routledge Handbooks)

Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History)

Measuring the World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And emperor had to indulge Frederick, and the wily elector was able to arrange a hearing for Luther on German soil. The confrontation was scheduled for October 1518 at the Diet of Augsburg. The Imperial Diet at Augsburg was dominated by pressing political considerations, including the upcoming imperial election and a planned crusade against the Turks, but Luther also faced the papal legate, the Italian Dominican, Cardinal Cajetan, who was entrusted with examining the supposed heretic’s ideas. The.

Germany and the Thirty Years’ War 73 6 89 Absolutism and Enlightenment 7 Napoleonic Germany and the Revolution of 1848 105 8 126 Unification and Empire 9 The Great War and Weimar Germany 148 10 Nazism and World War II 180 11 The Cold War: Division and Reunification 197 12 226 Contemporary Germany Appendixes 1 Basic Facts about Germany 245 2 A Brief Chronology of German History 249 3 Bibliography 257 4 Suggested Reading 262 Index BH_Germany_print_CS2.indd vii 272.

Repress the revolutionary impulses the wars unleashed. By 1830, however, the stability that Metternich had imposed in Europe was beginning to break down. A pair of successful revolutions, fueled by a combustible mix of liberal ideology and nationalist fervor, broke out that year in France and Belgium. Seeing monarchs unseated in these revolutions, Europe’s remaining rulers contemplated a military intervention, while another rebellion began in Poland. In response, the autocratic monarchs of.

Of July 13, 1870, stoked passions on both sides, pushing France into declaring war: The report of the meeting sent to Bismarck by the king’s secretary, Heinrich Abeken, on July 13, 1870: His Majesty the King writes to me: M. Benedetti intercepted me on the Promenade in order to demand of me most insistently that I should authorize him to telegraph immediately to Paris that I shall obligate myself for all future time never again to give my approval to the candidacy of the Hohenzollerns should it.

If he could continue to rule as king of Prussia, it was too late for compromise. On November 9, 1918, Prince Max of Baden, acting as chancellor, announced that Emperor Wilhelm II had finally agreed to abdicate. The last Habsburg emperor of Austria had already stepped down a week earlier, as his empire fragmented into a series of ethnic enclaves. Wilhelm, reduced since early in the war to figurehead status amid the rising popularity and influence of the German military high command—especially the.

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