Events that changed Germany / edited by Frank W. Thackeray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thackeray, Frank W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germany--History--1789-1900.

Germany.

History.

Germany--History--20th century.

Germany--History--Unification, 1990.

Physical Description:

xi, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

Summary:

This concise volume provides students and laypeople with an organized, lively, and coherent synopsis of the ten most important events and developments that shaped German history over the past 150 years.

Contents:

The Revolutions of 1848, 1848-1849

The unification of Germany, 1871

Industrialization, 1890-1910

The pursuit of Weltpolitik, 1890-1914

World War I, 1914-1918

The collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933

The Hitler experience, 1933-1945

World War II, 1939-1945

West Germany's economic and political "miracle", 1949-1973

The reunification of Germany, 1990.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0313328145

OCLC:

56057930