1st Edition

Rereading German History (Routledge Revivals) From Unification to Reunification 1800-1996

By Richard J. Evans Copyright 1997
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

In Rereading German History , first published in 1997, Richard J. Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political, economic, cultural and social history of Germany through war and reunification. This book provides a study of how and why historians – mainly German, American, British and French – have provided a series of differing and often conflicting readings of the German past.... Read more

Preface;  Acknowledgements;  Part 1: Parade of the Grand Narratives;  1. Towards Unification  2. Whatever Became of the Sonderweg?  3. Nipperdey’s Nineteenth Century  4. From Unification to World War  5. The View from France;  Part 2: Patterns of Authority and Revolt;  6. Police and Society from Absolutism to Dictatorship  7. The Catholic Community and the Prussian State  8. Workers’ Co-Operatives in the Nineteenth Century  9. The Failure of German Labour in the Weimar Republic;  Part 3: Ideological Origins of Nazism;  10. The Dynamics of Violence  11. In Search of German Darwinism  12. From Racial Hygiene to Auschwitz  13. Antisemitism: Ordinary Germans and the ‘Longest Hatred’;  Part 4: Faces of the Third Reich;  14. Playing for the Devil: Furtwangler and the Nazis  15. Claus von Stauffenberg and the Bomb that Failed  16. The Deceptions of Albert Speer  17. Churchill: the End of Glory?;  Part 5: Reunification and Beyond;  18. German Reunification in Historical Perspective  19. Beyond the Historikerstreit  20. Rebirth of the German Right?  21. After Reunification;  Index

Biography

Richard J. Evans