David Blackbourn is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History 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.
"""[A] rich and full-throated book"""" -- Neal Ascherson - The Observer ""[An] all-embracing history of Germany's relationship with the outside world... readers of this book will never see Germany in quite the same way again. "" -- The Economist ""In this detailed and original study, David Blackbourn argues that Germany's influence stretches around the world and has done so since long before there was a unified German geopolitical entity. "" -- The New European"