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Germany: A Short History

by Donald S. Detwiler. 342 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Donald S. Detwiler

Publisher:

   Southern Illinois University Press

Place of Publication:

  Carbondale, IL  

Publication Year:

  1999
Subjects:   Germany--History
Table of contents
CONTENTS
List of Maps · vii
Preface · ix
Preface to the Second Edition · xii
Preface to the Third Edition · xiii
1. ANTIQUITY TO 1250 · 3
2. FROM 1250 TO 1815 · 46
3. FROM 1815 TO 1914 · 104
4. FROM 1914 TO THE PRESENT · 149
A Brief Chronology · 261
A Selected Bibliography · 281
Index · 333
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Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject
Book by Thomas Elsaesser; Amsterdam University Press, 1996
Subjects: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner--1946---Criticism And Interpretation, Motion Pictures--Germany--History
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Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945
Book by Marion A. Kaplan; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Jews--Germany--History--17th Century, Jews--Germany--History--1800-1933, Jews--Germany--History--18th Century, Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945, Jews--Germany--Social Life And Customs
...references and index. ISBN-13 978-0-19-5i7l64-8 ISBN o-19-517164-o 1. Jews-Germany History i7th century. 2. Jews-Germany- History 18th century. 3. Jews-Germany History 1800-1933. 4. Jews-Germany History 1933-1945. 5. Jews-Germany- Social...
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Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
Book by Bernd Widdig; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th Century, German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Germany--Civilization--20th Century, Germany--Economic Policy--1918-1933, Germany--History--1918-1933, Germany--Social Conditions--1918-1933, Inflation (Finance)--Germany--History, Money In Literature
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Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany, 1800-1918
Book by Jürgen Kocka; Berghahn Books, 1999
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Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany
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The Reichskuratorium Fur Wirtschaftlichkeit: Fordism and Organized Capitalism in Germany, 1918-1945
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Diverging Paths: Accounting for Corporate Governance in America and Germany
Journal article by Jeffrey Fear, Christopher Kobrak; Business History Review, Vol. 80, 2006
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Divergent Responses to Indentical Problems: Businessmen and the Smoke Nuisance in Germany and the United States, 1880-1917
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A People without a State: Post VE-Day Germany
Magazine article by Friedemann Bedurftig; History Today, Vol. 45, May 1995
Subjects: Germany--History, Military occupation--Germany, War damage--Germany, World War, 1939-1945--Influence
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Hitler's Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
Magazine article by Christopher Clark; History Today, Vol. 55, March 2005
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...offences. Hitlers Prisons is far more than an institutional history--Wachsmann is always alert to the social and cultural setting...primary sources are drawn from eighteen archives scattered across Germany--with rare narrative gifts. Wachsmann handles his complex and...
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Justice Seen, Justice Done? Abolishing Public Executions in 19th-Century Germany
Magazine article by Richard Evans; History Today, Vol. 46, April 1996
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...the experience of Germany was indeed different...known about the history of British debates...democracy. Only in Germany did the retention...in modern German history, since it reflected...Capital Punishment in Germany, 1600-1987 (Oxford...is Professor of history at Birkbeck. College...
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Capturing the German Eye: American Visual Propaganda in Occupied Germany
Magazine article by Richard J. Evans; History Today, Vol. 59, September 2009
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Germany
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 49, April 1999
Germany. Both the perpetrators and the victims of Nazism dominate new studies of Germany this season. A first-hand perspective of the collapse...excessive retribution against a severely defeated nation. Germanys rapid recovery from this `stab in the back, how the country...
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Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), March 28, 1999
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...penalty-area scramble, the Germans finally cleared the ball. Germany put Northern Ireland out of their misery on 62 minutes when...13-goal record. The veteran striker was again denied a slice of history at the death when Kahn saved his diving header.
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Germany Putting Its Grisly Nazi Past on Trial
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 3, 2005
Subjects: National Socialist Party (Germany)
...Second, it forced the German people to face up to two phenomena: the crimes of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, and Germanys earlier history - the failure of Wilhelmine Germany, the failure of Weimar Germany, the failure of Nazi Germany, three failed...
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Newspaper article by Paul Zielbauer; The Washington Times, February 9, 1997
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Adenauer's Legacy of Weakness to Germany
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 1, 1996
Subjects: Adenauer, Konrad, Germany
...his wish: Bonn Germany, his Rheinland republic, is a vassal state of Germanys traditional enemies, and it seems that there shall never again be a German reawakening. History however, has a way to spring surprises on us. Who would have thought...
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Despite Success, Czechs Remain Wary: Germany, Russia Loom as Giants in History, Geography
Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, February 27, 1996
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...remain wary: Germany, Russia loom as giants in history, geography...between Russia and Germany, the two giants...determined Czech history. A diplomatic...heightened fears that history could repeat...for 45 years. Germany flexes its reunited...
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Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...medieval, and early modern history of Germany are covered in the articles...of the complex history of Germany. History to the Early Middle Ages...Feldman. See also H. Holborn, History of Modern Germany, 1840 1945 (3 vol., 1959...
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Berlin , City, Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of development within the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and an important city in Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe...among the citys many educational and scientific institutions. History Early History to World War II Berlin had its beginning...
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Schleswig , City, Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...products and leather and on fishing. One of the oldest cities in N Germany, Schleswig was known by c.800. It was a Roman Catholic episcopal...18th cent.) in Schleswig now houses museums of art and early history. The Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter (12th 15th cent.) contains...
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Oldenburg , Former State, Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...former state, Germany ol d nboorkh, former state, NW Germany. It is now included in the state of Lower Saxony . The city...Oldenburg proper is a low-lying, fertile, and marshy land. The history of Oldenburg proper is mainly of dynastic significance. Originally...
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William I , Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...enabled Bismarck to pass severe legislation against the socialists. Williams reign was crucial in European history, for it saw Germanys rise to power on the continent. His son Frederick III succeeded him. See P. Wiegler, William the First...
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