{"product_id":"history-of-germany-17801918-9780631231967","title":"History of Germany 17801918","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late 18th century German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of undeveloped principalities. Yet by the early 20th century, unified Germany had become the most powerful state in Europe. This book tells the story of this transformation weaving together political, social and cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘David Blackbourn is one of the brightest of a younger generation of Anglo-American scholars whose work has transformed the historiography of modern Germany over the past two decades.' \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Here is contemporary historical scholarship at its best. Witty, modest about historical generalizations, but ever willing to introduce revisionism, Blackbourn demonstrates how to write thought-provoking and persuasive prose.' \u003ci\u003eGerman Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘It is elegant, thought-provoking, informative and entertaining, summarizing a formidable body of literature and offering new interpretations of it. Everyone, from undergraduates to experts in the field, and beyond the walls of academia to the educated general reader . . . can read [this book] with profit and pleasure.' \u003ci\u003eCentral European History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps. \u003cp\u003eList of Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Plates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the First Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Age of Revolutions, 1789–1848:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 In the Shadow of France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Germany in Transition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Revolutions of 1848–9.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Age of Progress:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Economy and Society Transformed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 From Reaction to Unification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Progress and its Discontents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Age of Modernity, 1880–1914:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 ‘Made in Germany': A New Economic Order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Society and Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Old Politics and the New.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Germany at War, 1914–18.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography of English Language Works.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403453997399,"sku":"9780631231967","price":28.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631231967.jpg?v=1730483520","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-of-germany-17801918-9780631231967","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}