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This textbook provides a history of modern Germany, locating the country's social, cultural, and political developments within their proper global and transnational context. The author argues that most developments in German culture, society, and politics throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were caused by wider global and transnational trends. A history of the German people rather than the German state, the book focusses on non-state and non-government actors, intercultural transfers, and applies the approach of 'thick description' to analysing the creation of German culture, society, and identity from the era of the Napoleonic wars right up to the present post-unification Germany. This includes an examination of German migrants' journeys to their new homes in the Americas and, thus, the creation of a global German diaspora with cultural and social networks beyond its home country's borders. The book further focusses on the transfers that connected German society and culture with those of other countries; for instance, chapters cover the transfer of football from England to Germany, the transfer of the Christmas holiday tradition from Germany to other countries, and the development of eugenics in Germany within its global context.
Contents
1. Globalizing German History.- 2. Industrialization and Urbanization.- 3. The Founding of the German Confederation.- 4. The Revolutions of 1830 and 1848/49.- 5. The Division of the German Confederation.- 6. The Divided German Society.- 7. Germans and Germany.- 8. The Emergence of Civil Society.- 9. World War I.- 10. Redefining Germany.- 11. The Introduction of Totalitarian Rule.- 12. The Nazified German Society.- 13. The Creation of the "Aryan Master Race".- 14. World War II.- 15. The Creation of Two Alternative Germanies.- 16. Diverging Societies.- 17. The Peaceful Revolution in East Germany.- 18. Fitting East Germany into West Germany.- 19. The Berlin Republic.
