German Unification in the European Context
Author: Peter H. Merkl
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0271044098
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Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification
Author: Frédéric Bozo
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009-10
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1845454278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. --from publisher description.
The Origins of the Wars of German Unification
Author: William Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1317872029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In his last book, the late William Carr provides a masterly account of the origins and impact of the three major wars fought by Prussia in creating the Bismarckian Reich of 1871. He begins with a study of the development of nationalism and liberalism from the late eighteenth century to the 1860's, before turning to a detailed examination of the Schleswig-Holstein Conflict of 1864; the `Six Weeks War' of 1866; and the Franco-Prussia War of 1870--71.
Blood and Iron
Author: Katja Hoyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-12-07
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1643138383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France—all without destroying itself in the process? In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.
The Imperfect Union
Author: Peter E. Quint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-09-17
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 1400822165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the mid-summer of 1989 the German Democratic Republic-- known as the GDR or East Germany--was an autocratic state led by an entrenched Communist Party. A loyal member of the Warsaw Pact, it was a counterpart of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), which it confronted with a mixture of hostility and grudging accommodation across the divide created by the Cold War. Over the following year and a half, dramatic changes occurred in the political system of East Germany and culminated in the GDR's "accession" to the Federal Republic itself. Yet the end of Germany's division evoked its own new and very bitter constitutional problems. The Imperfect Union discusses these issues and shows that they are at the core of a great event of political, economic, and social history. Part I analyzes the constitutional history of eastern Germany from 1945 through the constitutional changes of 1989-1990 and beyond to the constitutions of the re-created east German states. Part II analyzes the Unification Treaty and the numerous problems arising from it: the fate of expropriated property on unification; the unification of the disparate eastern and western abortion regimes; the transformation of East German institutions, such as the civil service, the universities, and the judiciary; prosecution of former GDR leaders and officials; the "rehabilitation" and compensation of GDR victims; and the issues raised by the fateful legacy of the files of the East German secret police. Part III examines the external aspects of unification.
The Diplomacy of German Unification
Author: Stephen F. Szabo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780312121600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The unification of Germany was the single most important event in the European year of revolutions. The Diplomacy of Germany Unification tells the story of the international aspects of the creation of united German. Based on interviews with key Soviet, German, and American officials who shaped the final settlement, as well as on extensive journalistic and other secondary sources, this study is the most comprehensive account to date of the diplomatic negotiations over the future political, economic, and security role of the new Germany.
Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
Author: Philip Zelikow
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780674353251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work provides an analysis of the moves and manoeuvres that brought an end to the Cold War division of Europe. Coverage includes discussion of the opening of the Berlin Wall and a study of the relationship between West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and reform Communist leader, Hans Modrow.
Triumph of the Fatherland
Author: Brigitte Young
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999-03-31
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780472085361
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The Wars of German Unification
Author: Dennis Showalter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-07-30
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 178093808X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A revised and updated edition of the definitive work on the wars of German unification.
The Rush to German Unity
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994-02-24
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0195358945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The bringing down of the Berlin Wall is one of the most vivid images and historic events of the late twentieth century. The reunification of Germany has transformed the face of Europe. In one stunning year, two separate states with clashing ideologies, hostile armies, competing economies, and incompatible social systems merged into one. The speed and extent of the reunification was so great that many people are still trying to understand the events. Initial elation has given way to the realities and problems posed in reuniting two such different systems. The Rush to German Unity presents a clear historical reconstruction of the confusing events. It focuses on the dramatic experiences of the East German people but also explores the decisions of the West German elite. Konrad H. Jarausch draws on the rich sources produced by the collapse of the GDR and on the public debate in the FRG. Beginning with vivid media images, the text probes the background of a problem, traces its treatment and resolution and then reflects on its implications. Combining an insider's insights with an outsider's detachment, the interpretation balances the celebratory and the catastrophic views. The unification process was democratic, peaceful and negotiated. But the merger was also bureaucratic, capitalistic and one-sided. Popular pressures and political manipulation combined to create a rush to unity that threatened to escape control. The revolution moved from a civic rising to a national movement and ended up as reconstruction from the outside. An ideal source for general readers and students, The Rush to German Unity explores whether solving the old German problem has merely created new difficulties.
