Dietrich Orlow – författare

Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country’s history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

Orlow tells the story of Germany’s troubled past – Prusso-German authoritarianism, the Nazi dictatorship, and the Holocaust – whilst also uncovering the long-standing traditions of political, cultural and economic pluralism that have existed alongside. Over the years, historians have debated the cause for Germany’s volatile and unpredictable trajectory; this textbook offers readers insight into this lively historiography. Whilst taking Germany as its focus, the book also covers its interaction with the rest of the world, including the two world wars and Germany’s brief colonial experience. This ninth edition is the only textbook that brings the story to the present day; its new chapter on the years 2017-2024 delves into Germany’s role in the global balance of power.

With ‘Im Mittelpunkt’ (‘In the Spotlight’) features on key figures and an expanded list of ‘Suggestions for Further Reading’, this new edition remains the perfect grounding for all students of German history.

Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country’s history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

Orlow tells the story of Germany’s troubled past – Prusso-German authoritarianism, the Nazi dictatorship, and the Holocaust – whilst also uncovering the long-standing traditions of political, cultural and economic pluralism that have existed alongside. Over the years, historians have debated the cause for Germany’s volatile and unpredictable trajectory; this textbook offers readers insight into this lively historiography. Whilst taking Germany as its focus, the book also covers its interaction with the rest of the world, including the two world wars and Germany’s brief colonial experience. This ninth edition is the only textbook that brings the story to the present day; its new chapter on the years 2017-2024 delves into Germany’s role in the global balance of power.

With ‘Im Mittelpunkt’ (‘In the Spotlight’) features on key figures and an expanded list of ‘Suggestions for Further Reading’, this new edition remains the perfect grounding for all students of German history.

Although the Socialist or Social Democractic parties played a key role in West European politics during the quarter century after the Second World War, they have been studied far less than their political rivals, the Christian Democrats. The story of West European Social Democracy after 1945 begins with a dilemma: Democratic marxism, which had been the parties'' ideological and organizational principle until the Second World War, was becoming politically irrelevant. The three parties analyzed here represent the spectrum of reactions among Social Democratic parties to this realization. The debate over the parties'' programs and ideologies did not, of course, take place in a vacuum: the author devotes considerable space to a comparative analysis of the parties'' leaders and organizational structures as well as the evolution of Social Democratic domestic and foreign policies. Immensely readable, this book not only offers an in-depth analysis of the postwar period crucial for the history of Social Democracy but also, because of its cross-national treatment of these three major parties, adds significantly to our understanding of the processes of European integration and the evolution of the Atlantic Alliance.