German history in modern times : four lives of the nation / William W. Hagen
"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 "th...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Hagen, William W. (VerfasserIn) |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012 |
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| Internet: | http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2012-3-029 Autorenbiografie Verlagsangaben Inhaltsverzeichnis Autorenbiografie Verlagsangaben Book review (H-Net) Rezension |
| Inhaltsangabe |
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| Part I: German Central Europe Before Modern NationalismHerrschaft: Lordship and power in the Germanies |
| Alltag: Contours of daily life in the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries |
| Power states (Machtstaaten): the Prussian and Austrian military-bureaucratic monarchies |
| Aufklärung: the German enlightenment and other spirits of the age |
| Part II: German Identities Between Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism, 1789-1914 |
| Liberté?: facing the French Revolution, 1789-1815 |
| "Land of poets and thinkers" (Dichter und Denker): from enlightenment universalism to German national culture |
| Freedom and voice, "iron and blood" (Eisen und Blut): liberalism and nationalism, 1815-1914 |
| Sozialdemokratie: workers and politics in the age of industrialization |
| Frauen: women, family, feminism, 1789-1914 |
| State of many peoples (Vielvölkerstaat): the Habsburg Austrian monarchy |
| "German citizens of Jewish faith (deutsche Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens): Jews, Germans, German Jews, 1789-1914 |
| Part III: Duels of Identity and the Death of Nations, 1914-1945 |
| Krieg: The Prussian-German monarchy's sudden death in war and Revolution, 1914-1920 |
| Weimarer Republik: Democracy's bitter fruits, 1918-1933 |
| A people without a state? Volk ohne staat?: Middle-class discontent and populist utopia |
| Lebensraum: War for empire in Eastern Europe |
| Shoah Banned from nation and earth: German Jews after 1914, National Socialist "Jewish policy", and the Holocaust |
| Part IV: The Cold War Germanies and Their Post-1989 Fusion: A Nation Reforged from Its Remnants? |
| Beyond "zero hour" (Stunde null): defeated Germany and the West German Federal Republic, 1949-1989 |
| "Real existing socialism" (real existierender Sozialismus): Soviet-occupied Germany and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 |
| Mauerfall Fall of the wall: the post-unification scene in West and East. |
