A CONCISE HISTORY OF GERMANY MARY FULBROOK DOWNLOAD FREE

The history covered by the book ends just a few years into the unified Germany. If, like me, the medieval period in Germany is what you're especially interested in, I recommend looking elsewhere. A well-presented short account of a massive amount of history. What initially drew me to it was a similar book from Cambridge University Press on the History of France that I found quite interesting, and both are marketed as textbooks. As good an introduction as you can get in pages. For a book I came across at the downtown library, this was worth the reading. Electronic books History Additional Physical Format:

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Feb 10, Sue rated it it was ok Shelves: User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Write on only one side of paper at a time hide spoiler ] hide spoiler ] Fulbrook view spoiler [ nomen est omen hide spoiler ] begins with Neanderthal people perhaps a bit further back than I might consider reasonable and flows out in gurgling fullness from there on, I would have preferred an explicit statement - considering she has only pages - not enough for the discussion!

It only reads as though you are looking through a poorly-done translation.

A Concise History of Germany

Prior to this, I have only known the basics about the countries past, mostly about the two world wars. Jul 21, Amy rated it it was ok Shelves: However, it got a touch too political towards the end, and I found it relatively uninteresting in the od pages. A well-presented short account of a massive amount of history. Very light on earlier periods and heavy on post WWII times.

Want to Read saving…. While Fulbrook hits all the high points, she hits them so succinctly that without further background knowledge it may be too difficult to understand. German proponents of fulbgook Aufklarung, while perhaps bad Christians themselves, were by and large conservative and usually quite insightful. Instead you have page-long paragraphs with so much detail that you often turn the I only had to read the first pages of this book for my German History class and to be honest, I would give it 3 stars or lower if it was so well-researched.

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Cambridge University Press Amazon. In a sense, the This review is for the OG edition, which was revised ina bermany years after the reunification of Germany. You may want to check out alternate suggested readings by other reviewers of this book.

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A concise history of Germany

Open Preview See a Problem? Difficult to read due to small print size and complex sentence structure.

The book definitely lives up to its name: God bless you too, my loyal potatoes, may my soldiers enjoy eating you, Good Day to you! Your list has reached the maximum number of items.

Luther's "95 Theses" was intended to initiate action towards the perceived corruptions within the Catholic Church, even tackling issues such as social justice towards the peasant class before he was almost killed by one such mob and retracted his stance.

Frederick Barbarossa met an untimely death during the Third Crusade but the journey for his retinue of knights was not over. Please enter your name. This edition focused a lot on the Cold War. The central question has always been, what is the appropriate and composition of the German State, and different eras have lead to different answers.

All in all, mart book is what it is published to be.

A Concise History of Germany : Mary Fulbrook :

The age of absolutism, ; 5. The impact of the French Revolution. This book was extremely helpful to me, a seasoned student of Modern Germany and German culture, to give me an overview of the parts of history I do not as often deal with, particularly the period prior to the s.

The E-mail message field is required. The Catholic emperor was now at odds with his Protestant princes, the Peace of Augsburg only bolstering their poistions and the Peace of Westphalia magnifying certain provinces and increasing autonomous power in general. Napoleon's wars changed the face of middle Europe and brought the German states into the modern age. This is a much better short history of Germany than the flawed The Shortest History of Germany Hawes which was gremany introduction to the topic.