A History of Germany

• Main Author: Wende, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
• Series: Palgrave Essential Histories series
• Subjects: History.; Europe, Central > History.; History of Germany and Central Europe.

Even a brief glance at the maps of what has, or might have, been called Germany through the ages reveals a kaleidoscope of alterations in shape and composition. Though there are elements of continuity, the history of Germany has been the history of nearly constant change. In this concise introductio...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Origins and Beginnings
• Medieval Germany
• Reformation Germany
• The Thirty Years' War
• Eighteenth-Century Germany
• Industrialisation and Social Change
• Prussia's Germany
• Weimar Germany
• Hitler's Germany
• Two Germanies
• Epilogue: Today's Germany
• Framework of Events
• Selected Further Reading
• Index.