This is the history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870, and ended in the rubble of Hitler's regime. Gordon Craig not only analyses the political structures of and the foreign, social, and economic policies of successive governments, but also examines the individuals who dominated the period and the important intellectual and cultural influences at work. His fascinating chapter on the rich diversity of Weimar culture - Mann and Hesse, Marlene Deitrich and film, Brecht, Schonberg, Expressionist art, and the growth of psychoanalytic theory - is proof enough that this is not an ordinary history book.
| ISBN: | 9780192851017 |
| Publication date: | 19th March 1980 |
| Author: | Gordon A Professor of History, Professor of History, Stanford University Craig |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 842 pages |
| Series: | Oxford History of Modern Europe |
| Genres: |
European history |