Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people (chapters 1–27); it then describes individual peoples, beginning with those dwelling closest to Roman lands and ending on the uttermost shores of the Baltic, among the amber-gathering Aesti, the Fenni, and the unknown peoples beyond them.
Exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the Democratic Women's League of Germany. Youth hour at the Museum of German History during the exhibition “Germany from 1933–1945” in 1964. It interpreted German history as a class struggle consistent with Marx's historical materialism. It displayed texts and 100,000 objects, divided into seven ...
Morrison described the book as "an impeccably erudite cultural history of Germany". Morrison wrote that the "book is immaculately researched, timely and important". [3] The Economist also received the book positively with the book described as "deeply felt, carefully conceived and an important addition to any consideration of the shape not only ...
By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain's while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its ...
The historiographical concept of a German Sonderweg has had a turbulent history. 19th-century scholars who emphasised a separate German path to modernity saw it as a positive factor that differentiated Germany from the "western path" typified by Great Britain. They stressed the strong bureaucratic state, reforms initiated by Bismarck and other ...
German unity as fiasco with each state viewing itself separate. Cartoon from Münchner Leuchtkugeln, 1848. Caption reads: "German Unity. A Tragedy in one Act." The "German question" was a debate in the 19th century, especially during the Revolutions of 1848, over the best way to achieve a unification of all or most lands inhabited by Germans. [1]
The Course of German History is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor.It was first published in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton in July 1945. . This influential work offers a critical examination of German history, spanning from the Holy Roman Empire through to the end of World War II, arguing that the course of German history was a natural progression towards ...
Also, according to Gary D. Stark, who reviewed this book for The Journal of Modern History: ″Liulevicius draws from a wide array of published primary sources (economic, political, military, and historical tracts; novels, memoirs, and diaries; speeches and manifestos) and on all the relevant secondary literature.″ [2]