Germany and the Holy Roman Empire

Germany and the Holy Roman Empire
Author: Joachim Whaley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199693072

In the first single-author account of German history from the Reformation to the early nineteenth century since Hajo Holborn's study written in the 1950s, Dr Whaley provides a full account of the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Volume II extends from the Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich.

Contesting the German Empire 1871 - 1918

Contesting the German Empire 1871 - 1918
Author: Matthew Jefferies
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Jefferies offers a historiographical overview of more than a century of works on the German empire, presenting varying perspectives on gender, cultural history, foreign relations, colonialism, and war. He also explores the controversial historical reputations of Bismark and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2013-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625584156

Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire;

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire;
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 604
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781011259670

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The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered

The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered
Author: Jason Philip Coy
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 184545992X

The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before it was actually dissolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The authors of this volume reconsider the significance of the Empire in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Their research reveals the continual importance of the Empire as a stage (and audience) for symbolic performance and communication; as a well utilized problem-solving and conflict-resolving supra-governmental institution; and as an imagined political, religious, and cultural "world" for contemporaries. This volume by leading scholars offers a dramatic reappraisal of politics, religion, and culture and also represents a major revision of the history of the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period.

Blood and Iron

Blood and Iron
Author: Katja Hoyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1643138383

In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France—all without destroying itself in the process? In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.

The Army of the German Empire 1870–88

The Army of the German Empire 1870–88
Author: Albert Seaton
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1973-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780850451504

The army of the German Empire was born out of the once great Prussian army that Napoleon Bonaparte had humbled at the Battle of Jena-Auerstädt in 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars. The eventual defeat of Napoleon initiated a slow process of military reform that gained momentum during the pan-German and expansionist policies of King William I of Prussia and his chancellor Bismarck. This book charts the consolidation of Prussian power and details the structure of the new imperial army that was created after the triumph of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Uniforms and equipment are also examined in full detail.

Konrad Adenauer: From the German Empire to the Federal Republic, 1876-1952

Konrad Adenauer: From the German Empire to the Federal Republic, 1876-1952
Author: Hans-Peter Schwarz
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781571818706

Konrad Adenauer was one of modern Germany's great statesmen and perhaps its most remarkable representative: his long life spanned all important epochs, ranging from Bismarckian Empire to the Federal Republic. We are therefore pleased to present the first volume of this major biography in English, written by one of Germany's most influential ......