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Germany, Third Edition: A Short History
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by Donald S. Detwiler
Sales Rank: 1752428
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List Price: $29.50
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 360 pages
Published by: Southern Illinois University PressEdition: 3rd Edition edition June 2, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0809322315
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0809322312
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"The strength of Detwiler's accomplishment lies in his ability to explain concisely what was at the root of complex matters such as the lay investiture controversy—and to choose the right things to explain. He is also very good at showing why the accomplishments of such diverse worthies as Frederick Barbarossa, Bismarck, Stresemann, and Adenauer have earned them their places in German history." —Library Journal
"Detwiler's book presents a concise review of the political movements of German history. . . . He capsulizes main German trends and thoughts in an exciting manner so that the reader is easily motivated to learn more about German history." —German Quarterly
"How could it happen that the Germany that produced Goethe and Schiller, Beethoven and Brahms, could start two world wars, gladly follow that most evil of all human monsters, Hitler, embrace militarism and racism so eagerly? We understand these matters better after reading this cogent interpretation of Germany's history."—Long Beach Press-Telegram
Product Description
This new edition of a best-selling history of Germany, originally published in 1976, includes the great watershed of 1989–90 and its aftermath. With twelve maps, a chronology of events, and an updated bibliographical essay, Germany: A Short History provides a thorough introduction to German history from antiquity to the present.
Reader Reviews
I recently plowed through Davies's enormous Europe and enjoyed it immensely. He knit together the stories of the various European countries, but necessarily could not focus on any one. Donald Detwiler's book is a good next step for someone curious about the individual countries, but without the time or patience to read a detailed, multivolume work A Short History is written in the same concise, clear fashion as Davies' book. True to its name it rushes through two thousand years of history in just over 200 pages. This is a political history; wars receive a paragraph, social movements get a sentence unless, like the Reformation, they are important to political changes. There are a lot of names and genealogies here and some German terms are either defined once and obliquely or not defined at all, but you can look them up somewhere else or not worry about them. The most important thing that I took away from reading this book was an understanding of the relationship between liberalism and nationalism in the history of the Germans and how it differs from the evolution of these movements in Britain and France. The failure of the liberal cause to take root in Germany after the revolution of 1848 seems to have been the main reason that Europeans and Americans had to fight two world wars. A less important lesson that I took away is an understanding of German regionalism. Central Europe remained divided into tiny fiefs, duchies, grand duchies and kingdoms right into the 19th century. Their shifting patterns of allegiances have always mystified me, but I now believe that understand at least vaguely the nature of their economic and cultural interrelationships. This would be a very good textbook to accompany a class on Germany history.
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