Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000 -- David Blackbourn, Hardcover

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.

Author: David Blackbourn
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 800
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781631491832

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2023 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 05/08/2023