Modern Germany
Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century

This book aims to give a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the development of Germany in the twentieth century.

V. R. Berghahn (Author)

9780521345057, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 November 1987

360 pages, 50 tables
24.2 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.641 kg

'Modern Germany delivers just about everything one should look for in a concise general text.' History

This book aims to give a comprehensive overview and interpretation of the development of Germany in the twentieth century, a country whose history has decisively shaped the map and the politics of modern Europe and the world in which we live. Professor Berghahn is not concerned merely with politics and diplomacy, but also with social change, economic performance and industrial relations. His appendix contains fifty tables of invaluable statistical information including industrial and agricultural production, employment, voting patterns and education.

List of maps
Preface
Abbreviations
Glossary
Part I. Wilhelmine Germany, 1900–1914: Rapid Industrialisation and its Impact on Society
1. Stratification and social mobility
2. The Prusso-German political system and its political culture
3. Weltpolitik and the spectre of encirclement
Part II. War and Civil War, 1914–1923: The Political and Military Situation at the Beginning of the War
4. The strains of total war
5. Reaction, reform and revolutionary ferment
6. The Revolutions of 1918–19
7. Economic dislocation and counter-revolution, 1919–1923
Part III. The Weimar Republic Between Stabilisation and Collapse, 1924–1933: Intellectual and Cultural Activity
8. Party politics and the problem of parliamentary government
9. Weimar foreign policy
10. Economic tensions and the rise of the Nazis
11. From Brüning to Hitler
Part IV. The Third Reich, 1933–1945: The Face of the Nazi Dictatorship
12. Economic conditions and mobilisation for war
13. Nazi foreign policy and war aims
14. Occupation, exploitation and extermination
15. Resistance and collaboration during the final years
Part V. Occupation and Division, 1945–1960: Economic and Political Life in the Western Zones of Occupation
16. The Russian Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949
17. The shaping of the Federal Republic of germany, 1949–1960
18. Soviet Western policy and the consolidation of East Germany
Part VI. The Two Germanies Since the 1960s: The Development of the East German Economy, 1960–1985
19. Society ad politics in contemporary East Germany
20. West German capitalism and the international economy
21. Problems of political stability
22. Culture and society in West Germany
Statistical tables
Chronological table
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], European history [HBJD]