Routledge Library Editions: German History
About the Book Series
Originally published between 1929 and 1991 the volumes in this set:
- Offer a comprehensive and challenging interpretation of the German past
- Assess Bismarck’s contribution to the German Empire and his legacy for modern Germany
- Examine the psyche of the Germans and discuss the psychological impact of the Second World War on the Germans
- Review critically not only the rise and rule of National Socialism, but also the strength of authoritarianism and militarism and the weakness of democracy in 19th Century Germany
- Examine the inter-relationships between social and economic change on the one hand, and political developments on the other.
- Analyse the significance of the Zollverein on economic growth
- Discuss authority and the law in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic.
- Analyse the contribution of German historians to 20th Century historiography
- Chart key events in British – German trade rivalry
- Include archival material from both the former East and West Germany.
Great Britain and the German Trade Rivalry: 1875-1914
1st Edition
By Ross J. S. Hoffman
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1933, this volume covers 3 features of British history in the 40 years prior to the First World War: the inroad made by commercial and industrial Germany on the far-flung business empire of Great Britain; the British national reaction to this German rivalry and the influence...
Land and Power: British and Allied Policy on Germany's Frontiers 1916-19
1st Edition
By Harold I. Nelson
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1963, this book examines the territorial settlement with Germany at the end of the First World War. It approaches it from the standpoint of British official attitudes and policy in order to discover the pre-Paris-Peace-Conference evolution of British governmental thinking on...
Lion, Eagle, and Swastika: Bavarian Monarchism in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
1st Edition
By Robert S. Garnett
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1991 this study analyses the Bavarian monarchist movement and its place in the relations between Bavaria and the Reich during the Weimar era, with particular emphasis on the period up to 1929. Focusing on Bavaria’s peculiar historical position in the Reich as a staunch ...
Maximilian I (1459-1519): An Analytical Biography
1st Edition
By Gerhard Benecke
July 01, 2021
When originally published in 1982 this was the first biography of Maximilian I to appear in English for half a century. It assesses a man who was Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the modern Austrian state and the grandfather of Charles V and Ferdinand I. Maximilian was a key figure and an ...
The Cultural Roots of National Socialism
1st Edition
By Hermann Glaser
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1978, this book discusses some of the most important problems of 20th Century. The central concern of the volume is the deep-rooted provincialism which has pervaded the German cultural scene since the middle of the 19th Century. The causes and consequences of cultural ...
The Development of the German Public Mind: Volume 1 A Social History of German Political Sentiments, Aspirations and Ideas The Middle Ages - The Reformation
1st Edition
By Frederick Hertz
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1957, this study shows what the various sections of the Germans of every rank and class were thinking of the ruling men, how far they supported or opposed them, what were their wishes, hopes and fears, prejudices, ideals and standards of right and wrong. The influence of ...
The Development of the German Public Mind: Volume 2 A Social History of German Political Sentiments, Aspirations and Ideas The Age of Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Frederick Hertz
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1962, the second volume of how the psychological structure of German politics evolved deals with the age of monarchical absolutism and intellectual enlightenment, i.e. the last one and a half centuries of the Roman-German Empire. It traces the political principles which ...
The Epochs of German History
1st Edition
By J. Haller
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1930 this book discusses the critical moments in German history, with a view to surveying the development of the German nation and an attempt to understand the events of the 1920s with reference to significant chapters in Germany history from the past....
The Evolution of Germany
1st Edition
By John A. Hawgood
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1955, this book concisely charts the development of the states of Germany backwards, from the post-war partition into two republics, through the ruthless unification imposed by Hitler and the efficient federation created by Bismarck to the acute disunity of the 400 separate ...
The German Fifth Column in the Second World War
1st Edition
By Louis De Jong
July 01, 2021
Originally published in English in 1956, this book is divided into 3 parts : the first outlines how, after 1933, those outside Germany began to become increasingly afraid of sinister operations on the part of German agents and the partisans of National Socialism. The second part examines the role ...
The German Public Mind in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 3 A Social History of German Political Sentiments, Aspirations and Ideas
1st Edition
By Frederick Hertz, Frank Eyck
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1975, this volume covers the period from the age of Napoleon to the dismissal of Bismarck – a period of national liberation, of revolution, the development of political movements, of parties and the press and the achievement of nationhood. The book is a history of ideals and...
The German Social Democratic Party, 1875-1933: From Ghetto to Government
1st Edition
By W. L. Guttsman
July 01, 2021
Originally published in 1981, this book covers the development of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its inception to the end of the Weimar republic. Within a historical framework it analyses the role and operation of the SPD in the changing social and political climate of Germany and describes...