Germany In The World : A Global History, 1500 - 2000 - Paperback
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9761324095127
ISBN
9781324095125

Germany In The World : A Global History, 1500 - 2000

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Author
Blackbourn, David

Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany.
With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unificationā€”and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germanyā€™s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German historyā€”the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regimeā€”are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germanyā€™s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nationā€™s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nationā€™s borders.

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