Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-423) and index.
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Bismarck's Germany : The Kulturkampf ; Social democracy and the New Germany ; From free trade to protectionism ; The Anti-Socialist laws ; Liberals in Bismarck's Germany ; Class structure ; Women's place in the New Germany ; Sex and society -- Germany and Europe : 1871-90 : From the Congress of Berlin to the Dual Alliance ; Bismarck and Imperialism ; Bismarck's system of alliances -- Wilhelmine Germany : 1890-1914 : Caprivi and the "New course" ; Hohenlohe ; "World politics" and navalism ; Bülow ; Bethmann Hollweg -- The First World War : War aims and opposition ; From Bethmann Hollweg to Michaelis ; From Michaelis to Hertling ; The impact of the Bolshevik Revolution ; The revolution from above -- The Revolution of 1918 -- The Weimar Republic : 1919-33 : The Kapp Putsch ; Reparations and inflation ; The occupation of the Ruhr ; Stressman and fulfillment ; Weimar culture ; Locarno ; The Depression ; Brüning ; Von Papen ; Schleicher.
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Germany under Napoleon : The age of reform ; The war of liberation -- German society in transition : 1800-70 : Town and country ; The Industrial Revolution ; The emergence of a class society ; The Jewish community -- Restoration and reform : 1815-40 : Student radicalism ; Germany under Metternich ; Nationalism ; Constitutional developments ; The Zollverein ; The Congress system ; The revolutionary movements -- The revolutions of 1848 : The Frankfurt Parliament ; The Constitutional question -- The struggle for mastery : 1850-66 : The Crimean War ; The Italian question ; The "new era" in Prussia ; The origins of social democracy ; The constitutional crisis in Prussia ; The Schleswig-Holstein question -- The unification of Germany : 1866-71 : The Franco-Prussian War ; The unification of Germany ; The role of the military ; Nationalism ; Jews in the new Germany.
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The Nazi dictatorship ; Gleichschaltung ; Ernst Röhm and the SA ; Hitler in full command ; The Dual State ; The SS ; Anti-Semitism, racism, and euthanasia -- Nazi Germany : 1933-45 : Women in Nazi Germany ; First steps in foreign policy ; The Anschluss ; Czechoslovakia and appeasement ; The Polish crisis ; War ; The War in the West ; Barbarossa ; The beginnings of the Shoah ; The turn of the tide ; The Third Reich and modernization -- The Adenauer era : 1945-63 : Germany divided ; The German Democratic Republic ; The German question ; East Germany in the Khrushchev era ; Willy Brandt ; The Spiegel affair ; The end of the Adenauer era ; Culture in the Federal Republic -- Two Germanys : 1963-82 : The Federal Republic after Adenauer ; Willy Brandt as Chancellor ; East Germany under Honecker ; Helmuth Schmidt ; The candidature of Helmut Kohl ; The extra-Parliamentary opposition ; Helmuth Schmidt's chancellorship : the final phase.
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The reunification of Germany : The winds of change ; Unification ; Germany unified.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Organized chronologically, the book addresses all the major watersheds in German history, including the unification, the rise and fall of the German Empire, the emergence of the Weimar Republic and its eventual submergence by the Third Reich, the collapse of the Third Reich with World War II, the birth of the Federal Republic, the collapse of Communism, and reunification. Written from the perspective of post-reunification Germany, A History of Modern Germany allows readers to take a long view of German history and to trace continuities as well as changes. It examines cultural issues such as class, religion, and gender, as well as political and economic history, and includes coverage of regional history rather than merely focusing on the dominant role of Prussia."--BOOK JACKET.