War in Modern German History traces the history of warfare in and relating to Germany from 1800 to the present day. Its focus lies less on war and the military in the narrower sense, than on the interdependencies between war, military, society, and culture. Making use of a range of maps, charts and images throughout the text, Rüdiger Bergien synthesizes much of the key literature in the field as he examines the specifics of the German relationship to war and the military and the developments that have taken place in this sphere over the last two centuries. The analysis is also extended wherever possible to provide invaluable Europe-wide context. This is a vital text for any student of modern German history and the nature of warfare in modern European history.
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List of Images List of Maps List of Tables Part I 1. War, Military Service and Nation-Building in the 19th Century 2. A Civil Society in the Shadow of War: Wilhelmine Germany 3. The Great War and its Aftermath 4. Preparing and Conducting 'Germany's Last War' 5. Cold War Front Line States Part II 6. War and German Collective Identity 7. A ‘German Way of War’? Peculiarities of German Military Culture 8. Militarism and Anti-Militarism Bibliographic Essay Index
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An investigation into the role of war in modern German history, as well as its institutions, the armed forces.
First book to examine the history of warfare in relation to Germany from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day
The Bloomsbury History of Modern Germany Series is an open-ended series of books on various aspects of modern German history in which leading academics from across the world portray, in a thematic manner, a broad variety of aspects of the German experience from roughly the turn of the 19th century to the modern day. Themes covered include class, religion, war, race, empire, sexuality and gender. Each volume contains an appendix of documents, illustrations and other material to enhance understanding.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350010642
Publisert
2023-04-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter

Biographical note

Rüdiger Bergien is Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany. He is the co-editor, along with Jens Gieseke, of Communist Parties Revisited: Socio-Cultural Approaches to Party Rule in the Soviet Bloc, 1956-1991 (forthcoming).