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Loading... History of Germany, 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century (Blackwell…by David Blackbourn
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a pretty formidable work, and it is decidedly not narrative or popular history, but is an analytically penetrating study of Germany history during the years indicated. Some chapters are heavy in analyzing parts of history which have never excited my interest. But there are many things of interest in the book and the last two chapters, dealing with the German experience in Worl War I and its aftermath make the book worth reading even for a non-specialist like me. My rating of the book is higher after finishing it than it would have been during some of the dryer chapters. Blackbourn is master historian. (  )Schmerguls | Aug 4, 2007 |   If you can only read one book about Germany in the 19th century make it this one. (  )Hoagy27 | Nov 28, 2006 | 0.024 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0195076729, Paperback)Many European historians consider the 19th century, at least on their continent, to have lasted over a hundred years, getting a head start on the calendar with the French Revolution of 1789 and extending until the onset of World War I in 1914 (when the "short 20th century" began). During this period, writes David Blackbourn in this fine, compact history, Germany evolved from a confused patchwork of municipalities and principalities with several layers of rulers (one village of 50 families, he notes, answered to four lords) into the most powerful unified nation in Europe.Blackbourn examines the rise of the idea of "Germanness," the development of presumed national traits such as obedience and antimodernism, and the growth of the bureaucratic state, which favored a kind of corporatism that clashed with trade and agrarian associations and paved the way for the class conflict Karl Marx would analyze--as well as what Blackbourn calls "a strong sense of suffocation." --Gregory McNamee (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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