Germany in the World

A Global History, 1500-2000

David Blackbourn

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Norton
17 September 2024

History; General & world history; European history; The Cold War; The Holocaust

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.

By: David Blackbourn
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 741g
ISBN: 9781324095125
ISBN 10: 1324095121
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

David Blackbourn is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History Emeritus at Vanderbilt University. The author of seven books, including Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Reviews for Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000

"""Sublimely good... proves that just as profound an affinity exists between history—and the study of causes and effects—and water, which are at once both intricate and implacable."" -- The Economist ""David Blackbourn has written an entertainingly original history, rich in insights into man and nature and the German—in fact, the European—mind."" -- Mark Kurlansky, best-selling author of Salt and Cod"