Germany in the World

A Global History, 1500 - 2000

By: David Blackbourn

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Paperback | 27 August 2024 | Edition Number 1

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800 Pages

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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.

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"A rich and full-throated account of the past 500 years... From the intellectual giants who enriched the west to the descent into dictatorship and war, the story of Germany's global impact - up to its modern rebirth - is told with real verve." -- Neal Ascherson - The Guardian
"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
"[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

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