A History of Modern Germany

Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

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Dietrich Orlow is Professor (emeritus) of History at Boston University, USA. His primary research and teaching interests are the history of modern Germany and the comparative political history of Western Europe since 1945. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including a two-volume history of the Nazi Party. His latest scholarly book is The PHS Under Ulbricht and Honecker: The Perseverance of a Stalinist Institution (2020).

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Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

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PREFACE

1 THE FOUNDERS' GENERATION, 1871-1890

2 WILHELMENIAN GERMANY, 1890-1914

3 WORLD WAR I, 1914-1918

4 REVOLUTION, INFLATION, AND PUTSCHES, 1918-1923

5 FOOLS' GOLD: THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 1924-1930

6 FROM AUTHORITARIANISM TO TOTALITARIANISM, 1930-1938

7 CONQUEST, DEATH, AND DEFEAT, 1938-1945

8 "CONDOMINIUM OF THE ALLIED POWERS," 1945-1949

9 THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY, 1949-1990

10 THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, 1949-1990

11 EUPHORIA AND DISILLUSIONMENT, 1990-2005

12 THE MERKEL ERA, 2005-2017

13 GLOBAL DRAMA AND NATIONAL MALAISE, 2017-2024

14 CONCLUSION

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING

INDEX