The Question of German Unification
The Question of German Unification

Author: Imanuel Geiss

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1136185682

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The course of recent German history has been volatile. Events in Eastern Europe, the collapse of European Communism and German Re-Unification has brought issues of Germany's status into the arena of world politics. The Question of German Unification presents an introduction to the last two hundred years of German history and addresses questions raised by the status of Germany as a single or split national state. Imanuel Geiss: * argues that Germany has fluctuated all too frequently, and catastrophically, between being the power centre of Europe or a power vacuum * describes the special features of German history and looks at Germany within a European framework * analyses the political, economic and social aspects of German Nationalism as well as the impact of the collapse of Communism on Germany, through detailing long-term structures and processes * includes discussion of recent political events as well as a chronology and further reading. Imanuel Geiss reflects on the irrationalities of German history, surveys how they have been explained by historians, and provides a succinct and readable account of the complex issues involved.

France and the German Question, 1945–1990
France and the German Question, 1945–1990

Author: Frédéric Bozo

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1789202272

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In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany’s fate, and the separation of the country—the result of the nascent Cold War—emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement. Yet East and West Germany would exist apart for half a century, making the "German question" a central foreign policy issue—and given the war-torn history between the two countries, this was felt no more keenly than in France. Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France’s approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged.

The German Question
The German Question

Author: Dirk Verheyen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0429974132

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The 'German Question,' long a subject of debate, is considered here at the close of a turbulent century, after Germany's defeat in two world wars, the Weimar failure and Nazi disaster, Cold War division, and the nation's unexpected recent reunification. This book systematically explores the issue in terms of its four central dimensions: Germany's identity, national unity, power, and role in world politics. Ambitious in conception and meticulous in execution, Dirk Verheyen's wide-ranging analysis incorporates historical and geopolitical considerations in an intellectually rigorous yet accessible discussion.

The German Question
The German Question

Author: Wilhelm Röpke

Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Published: 1946

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1610164431

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"Translated from the second edition.""First published in Great Britain in 1946. Published in Switzerland in 1945 under the title Die deutsche frage."

The Origins of the Wars of German Unification
The Origins of the Wars of German Unification

Author: William Carr

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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An examination of the origins of the wars of German unification which covers such subjects as the international situation and the domestic crisis and gives a detailed account of the wars and their ramifications for Europe and Germany itself. The text pays particular attention to the personality of Bismarck as a leader and his Prussian-centred policy and the ways in which he ensured that no fanatical ideologies would turn the wars into totalitarian conquests.

Germany and the United States
Germany and the United States

Author: Frank A. Ninkovich

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13:

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Focuses on German-American relations since 1945, including discussion of the postwar occupation of Germany by the Western allies and the Soviet Union.

When the Wall Came Down
When the Wall Came Down

Author: Harold James

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1136642684

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When the Wall Came Down provides a wide-ranging compendium of responses in Germany and other countries to the events of 1989-90, and includes essays by Henry Kissinger, Vaclav Havel, Ralf Dahrendorf and Timothy Garton Ash.