Germany

A New History

Hagen Schulze

Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider

    Preface

    1. The Roman Empire and German Lands (to 1400)

    2. Transitions (1400-1648)

    3. Twilight of the Empire (1648-1806)

    4. The Birth of the German Nation (1806-1848)

    5. Blood and Iron (1848-1871)

    6. German Possibilities: A Digression

    7. A Nation State in the Center of Europe (1871-1890)

    8. Unification and the Dream of World Power (1890-1914)

    9. The Great War and Its Aftermath (1914-1923)

    10. Weimar: Brief Glory and Decline (1924-1933)

    11. German Megalomania (1933-1942)

    12. The End of the Third Reich and a New Beginning (1942-1949)

    13. A Divided Nation (1949-1990)

    14. Epilogue: What Is the German's Fatherland?

    Suggested Readings

    Illustration Credits

    Index

  • Cover: Germany

Hagen Schulze is Director of the German Historical Institute, London and Professor of European History at the Free University of Berlin.