Germany in the World - David Blackbourn Gebunden

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 re gime-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.