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Professor Fischer's great work is possibly the most important book
of any sort, probably the most important historical book, certainly
the most controversial book, to come out of Germany since the war.
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Letters of Obscure Men (Hardcover)
Ulrich Von Hutten; Translated by Francis Griffin Stokes; Introduction by Hajo Holborn
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R2,052
Discovery Miles 20 520
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To
mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania
Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's
distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print.
Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers
peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
This second volume of a three-volume reassessment of the last
five centuries of German history covers the two centuries from the
crucial aftermath of the Thirty Years' War to the eve of the
revolution of 1848-49. Dealing with the growth of absolutism, the
author traces the founding of the Hapsburg empire and the rise of
Bradenburg-Prussia, culminating in the conflict between Maria
Theresa and Frederick the Great. Professor Holborn explores the
impact of the French Revolution on Germany, its part in the
collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, and the subsequent
reorganization of the German states. In his section on the Congress
of Vienna, he shows the struggle between the conservatism of
Metternich and the incipient liberal and national movement.
Students of German history will appreciate the attention given
religious, intellectual, and social developments, colorfully
presented in chapters on Baroque civilization and the age of Kant,
Goethe, and Beethoven.
This first volume of a major reassessment of the last five
centuries of German history deals with that age of German history
which had the widest effect on the rise of modern Western
civilization. Against the background of medieval culture, the
author shows the origins of Luther's religion and the growth of
various Protestant churches, as well as the subsequent restoration
of the Roman Catholic Church. The history of the religious
movements of the Reformation and the Counter Reformation is closely
co-ordinated with the great transformation simultaneously taking
place in the social, economic, and intellectual institutions of
Europe. Included are detailed discussions of the effects of the
Black Death, the rise of the cities, Luther's social ethics, The
Thirty Years' War, and the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
This concluding volume of a three-volume reassessment of the
last five centuries of German history develops the theme of power
into what Gordon A. Craig calls a "masterly account of the
dramatic, tragic and often shameful history of Germany in the most
recent age" ("New York Times Book Review"). It deals with the
period of nationalism and imperialism, from the abortive attempt of
popular forces to found a liberal national state and Bismarck's
German unification through the Prussian military monarchy to the
expansionist programs of the age of William II and Hitler's world
conquest.
This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
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