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Germany in the world : a global history, 1500-2000 / David Blackbourn.

by Blackbourn, David, 1949-

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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.

Germany -- History.

Germany -- Foreign relations -- History.

9781631491832 (hc)

xxv, 774 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 663-756) and index.

"Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification -- and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany’s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history -- the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime -- are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation’s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation’s borders."--Publisher.

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