William W. Hagen

German History in Modern Times (eBook, ePUB)

Four Lives of the Nation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire; the nineteenth century; the 1914-45 era of war, dictatorship and genocide; and the Cold War and post-Cold War eras since 1945 as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality. This book's 'Germany' is polycentric and multicultural, including the multinational Austrian Habsburg Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism offers a conceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The book's numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and styles of life, which often contrast with Western ideas of Germany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316023457
• Artikelnr.: 53398736

Autorenporträt

William W. Hagen is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Max-Planck Society and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of Germans, Poles, and Jews: The Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1772¿1914 and the prize-winning Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500¿1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His wide-ranging research articles have appeared in many publications, including The Journal of Modern History, Foreign Affairs, the American Historical Review, Past and Present, Historische Zeitschrift and Geschichte und Gesellschaft.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Master narratives and rival interpretations of modern German history; Part I. German Central Europe before Modern Nationalism: 2. The pyramid of power in pre-modern Germany; 3. Baroque and Enlightenment Germany, 1648
1789; 4. Power states (Machtstaaten): the rise of the Prussian and Austrian military-bureaucratic monarchies; 5. Aufklärung: the German Enlightenment and other spirits of the age; Part II. German Identities between Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism, 1789
1914: 6. Revolution on the march: French challenge, German response, 1789
1815; 7. 'Land of poets and thinkers': the transition from Enlightenment universalism to German national culture; 8. Freedom and voice, 'blood and iron': the struggle over liberalism and nationalism, 1815
1914; 9. Power to the people: German social democracy in the age of industrialization; 10. Women, family, feminism, 1789
1914; 11. Habsburg Austria: a multinational path in German history; 12. Jews, Germans, German Jews, 1789
1914; Part III. Nation in Crisis: Defeat, Turmoil, Aggression, 1914
15: 13. The Prussian-German monarchy's sudden death: World War I and postwar revolution, 1914
20; 14. Democracy's bitter fruits: society and politics, 1918
33; 15. The rise of Hitlerism: middle-class discontent and populist utopia; 16. The 'people's community' at Hitler's command: national and socialist Germany, 1933
45; 17. Lebensraum: the war for empire in Eastern Europe; 18. Banned from nation and earth: German Jews after 1914, Nazi 'Jewish policy', and the Holocaust; Part IV. The Cold War Germanies and their Post-1989 Fusion: A Nation Reforged from Its Remnants?: 19. Return from the abyss: defeated Germany and the West German Federal Republic, 1949
89; 20. 'Real existing socialism': Soviet-occupied Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949
90; 21. Present-day Germany: the post-unification scene in West and East.