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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Germany (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)
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by Martin Kitchen
Sales Rank: 757085
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$29.98
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
Published by: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition September 4, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0521794323
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521794329
Book Dimensions:
10 x 8.1 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
From School Library Journal
YA. A history of Germany from the days of Julius Caesar to the Reunification in the 1990s. Because it is a survey of 2000 years of history, no subject is treated in detail. Each chapter covers an era and briefly discusses the major political, economic, and military events and their impact on the country. The book is lavishly illustrated with full-color prints, maps, and period photographs. An extensive reading list for each chapter is included; unfortunately, many of the books recommended are in German.?Robert Burnham, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
A splendidly written narrative, this glossy volume can attract the attention of new students and veteran scholars of the wild ups and downs of German history. Aided by a plethora of color images, Kitchen exerts his appeal by keeping before the reader the abiding questions of the country's identity: who is a German, and where is Germany? Answering these questions, Kitchen delivers an interpretive accounting of political structures from the Holy Roman Empire to the latest reunified state. Necessarily simplifying without being simplistic, the author touches the essentials that have shaped, and haunted, the country: Luther, the Reformation, the Thirty Years War, the ascendance of Prussia, the Napoleonic impact, and the disasters of the twentieth century. All is not goose-stepping and war, though. Kitchen encapsulates in illustrated sidebars the Germans' signal cultural achievements in music, painting, and literature, spanning such varied artists as Bach and Grosz. With such breadth combined with depth in the crucial periods, Kitchen offers libraries an great resource. Gilbert Taylor
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Reader Reviews
This text should not be demoted to decorating a living room's coffee table because of its "Cambridge" denomination and fancy pictures. Some of these "decoration" books do contain excellent write ups. Ignoring Mr. Kitchen's dissertation on the history of Germany would be at your own peril if you own the book already and, except for martini stains and dust, choose to ignore it. This history of Germany explains in a fascinatingly succint style key aspects of the German nation and German ethos: the Holy Roman Empire, the Hanseatic League, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and, inevitably, the Third Reich and the Holocaust. There are excellent art and culture sections describing anything from Goethe's Romantic world and the Grimm Brothers' fantastic tales to the Bauhaus. If you want to own a book to impress your friends, buy it, but buy it mostly to be impressed by it.
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