Germany The Long Road West [Hardcover]

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 Westwill be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand this most complex and contradictory of countries.

1. Legacy of a Millennium
2. Hampered by Progress 1789-1830
3. Liberalism in Crisis 1830-1850
4. Unity before Liberty 1850-1871
5. The Transformation of Nationalism 1871-1890
6. World Policy and World War 1890-1918
7. The Impaired Republic 1918-1933
Looking Ahead

Heinrich Winkler's seminalGermany: The Long Road West, 1789-1933is 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

Heinrich August Winklerwas born in 1938 in K?nigsberg. He studied history, philosophy, and public law in T?bingen, Heidelberg and M?nster. He was associate professor at the Freie Universit?t in Berlin in 1970-72 and then professor of modern history in Freiburg until 1991. He has been at the Humboldt-Universit?t l#