A New History of German Literature

A New History of German Literature
Author: David E. Wellbery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1038
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780674015036

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

A History of German

A History of German
Author: Joe Salmons
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199697949

This book provides a detailed introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructible prehistory to the present day. It is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards.

A History of German

A History of German
Author: Joseph Salmons
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192561359

This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Joe Salmons explores a range of topics in the history of the language, offering answers to questions such as: How did German come to have so many different dialects and close linguistic cousins like Dutch and Plattdeutsch? Why does German have 'umlaut' vowels and why do they play so many different roles in the grammar? Why are noun plurals so complicated? Are dialects dying out today? Does English, with all the words it loans to German, pose a threat to the language? This second edition has been extensively expanded and revised to include extended coverage of syntactic and pragmatic change throughout, expanded discussion of sociolinguistic aspects, language variation, and language contact, and more on the position of German in the Germanic family. The book is supported by a companion website and is suitable for language learners and teachers and students of linguistics, from undergraduate level upwards. The new edition also includes more detailed background information to make it more accessible for beginners.

German History, 1770-1866

German History, 1770-1866
Author: James J. Sheehan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 996
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198204329

Now available in paperback, this is a uniquely authoritative study of Germany from the mid-18th century to the formation of the Bismarckian Reich.

German History in Modern Times

German History in Modern Times
Author: William W. Hagen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2012-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316025225

This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire; the nineteenth century; the 1914–45 era of war, dictatorship and genocide; and the Cold War and post-Cold War eras since 1945 as successive worlds of German life, thought and mentality. This book's 'Germany' is polycentric and multicultural, including the multinational Austrian Habsburg Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism offers a conceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The book's numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and styles of life, which often contrast with Western ideas of Germany.

From Old Regime to Industrial State

From Old Regime to Industrial State
Author: Richard H. Tilly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2020-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022672557X

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.

A History of Modern Germany

A History of Modern Germany
Author: Dietrich Orlow
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1315508354

Covering the entire period of modern German history - from nineteenth-century imperial Germany right through the present - this well-established text presents a balanced, general survey of the country's political division in 1945 and runs through its reunification in the present. Detailing foreign policy as well as political, economic and social developments, A History of Modern Germany presents a central theme of the problem of asymmetrical modernization in the country's history as it fully explores the complicated path of Germany's troubled past and stable present.

A Mighty Fortress

A Mighty Fortress
Author: Steven Ozment
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2005-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0060934832

The word "German" was being used by the Romans as early as the mid–first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of German history have faded beneath the long shadow of the country's darkest hour in World War II. Now, award-winning historian Steven Ozment, whom The New Yorker has hailed as "a splendidly readable scholar," gives us the fullest portrait possible in this sweeping, original, and provocative history of the German people, from antiquity to the present, holding a mirror up to an entire civilization -- one that has been alternately Western Europe's most successful and most perilous.

A German Generation

A German Generation
Author: Thomas A. Kohut
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300178042

Germans of the generation born just before the outbreak of World War I lived through a tumultuous and dramatic century. This book tells the story of their lives and, in so doing, offers a new history of twentieth-century Germany, as experienced and made by ordinary human beings.On the basis of sixty-two oral-history interviews, this book shows how this generation was shaped psychologically by a series of historically engendered losses over the course of the century. In response, this generation turned to the collective to repair the losses it had suffered, most fatefully to the community of the "Volk" during the Third Reich, a racial collective to which this generation was passionately committed and which was at the heart of National Socialism and its popular appeal.