Germany: The Long Road West: Volume 2: 1933-1990 - Hardcover

Winkler, H.A.; Sager, Alexander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199265984 ISBN 13: 9780199265985

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbors.

This first volume (of two) begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the "Reich," which was to experience a fateful renaissance in the twentieth century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception.

With a second volume that takes the story up to reunification in 1990, Germany: The Long Road West will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries.

About this title

About the Author:

Heinrich August Winkler was born in 1938 in Königsberg. He studied history, philosophy, and public law in Tübingen, Heidelberg and Münster. He was associate professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1970-72 and then professor of modern history in Freiburg until 1991. He has been at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin since 1992, and has been a visiting scholar in Princeton, at the Wilson Center in Washington, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, and at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich.

Review:

"Heinrich Winkler's seminal Germany: The Long Road West, 1789-1933 is destined to become a must-have for both scholars and students of German history...Winkler's excellent approach...makes this book a masterpiece of historical research."--Sandra Barkhof, History

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199265984
• ISBN 13: 9780199265985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600