ABSTRACT

Covering the entire period of modern German history - from nineteenth-century imperial Germany right through the present - this well-established text presents a balanced, general survey of the country's political division in 1945 and runs through its reunification in the present. Detailing foreign policy as well as political, economic and social developments, A History of Modern Germany presents a central theme of the problem of asymmetrical modernization in the country's history as it fully explores the complicated path of Germany's troubled past and stable present.

chapter 1|41 pages

THE FOUNDERS’ GENERATION, 1871–1890

chapter 2|35 pages

WILHELMINIAN GERMANY, 1890–1914

chapter 3|25 pages

WORLD WAR I, 1914–1918

chapter 7|29 pages

CONQUEST, DEATH, AND DEFEAT, 1938–1945

chapter 10|38 pages

THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 1949–1990

chapter 12|5 pages

Conclusion