Dr. Eric Kurlander, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Stetson UniversityDoug McGetchin, Associate Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University.Bernd-Stefan Grewe, Professor of History, Director of the Institute of Didactics of History and Public History, University of Tübingen, Germany.

Modern Germany is superior in its comprehensive, cultural, interdisciplinary, international approach. If you are teaching survey courses in German history and/or culture, it will benefit your students more than any other book on the market."-Bernd Schaefer, George Washington University

• Maps Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 1: A World in Flux, 1500-1648The Politics of EmpireCulture and Society in the Age of ExplorationThe Reformation and its ConsequencesConclusion Chapter 2: Germans in the Age of Absolutism, 1648-1740 Dynastic Politics, Trade, and Imperial Exchange State-Building and War in the Age of AbsolutismSociety, Popular Culture, and Belief Conclusion Chapter 3: German Empires and Enlightenments, 1740-1790Poets, Philosophers, and World CitizensReforming State and SocietyWar and Empire Conclusion Chapter 4: Revolution and Reform, 1789-1815 The French Revolution in Germany The Impact of the Revolution on German States and Peoples, 1803-1815 The End of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emerging German Nation, 1803-1815 Conclusion Chapter 5: Between Reaction and Revolution, 1815-1848 Society and Economy Culture and Politics in the Vormärz The Revolutions of 1848 Conclusion Chapter 6: Toward Germany, 1848-1871 Industry and Society German Culture Beyond Borders The Politics of Nationhood Conclusion Chapter 7: Building Empire at Home and Abroad, 1871-1890 Building Democracy Nation-Building and Its Discontents Building Empire Conclusion Chapter 8: Wilhelmine Germany and <"World Policy,> " 1890-1914 Democracy and Empire Progress and Anxiety Empire and Colonial Policy Conclusion Chapter 9: World War I, 1914-1918 The Origins and Course of World War I Total War Wartime Politics and Revolution Conclusion Chapter 10: The Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 Domestic Politics and Socioeconomic Crisis Culture and Society in the Weimar Republic National Conflict and International Compromise, 1919-1933 Conclusion Chapter 11: The Third Reich, 1933-1945 Nazi Politics in a Global Context A National Socialist Revolution? The Culture of Coercion and Consent, 1933-1939 Conclusion Chapter 12: World War II, 1939-1945 Strange Victories, 1938-1941 Nazi Empire-Building, 1941-1943 Collapse and End of World War II, 1943-1945 Conclusion Chapter 13: The Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing, 1941-1945 European Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing, and Anti- Semitism, 1918-1938 From the Jewish Question to the Final Solution, 1933-1942 Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders Conclusion Chapter 14: German Republics, 1945-1969 Germans and the New Postwar Order, 1945-1949 Culture, Economy, and Society in the Two Germanies, 1949-1969 Cold War Politics and Diplomacy, 1949-1969 Conclusion Chapter 15: Transcending Divisions, 1969-1991 Ostpolitik, Détente, and Disillusion Economy, Culture, and Society in the Two Germanies, 1969-1989 The Fall of the Wall and Reunification, Summer 1989-Summer 1991 Conclusion Chapter 16: Germany and the World, 1991-PresentMulticultural Germany Politics and Economy Germany in the World Conclusion Glossary Credits Index