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xviii, 341 pages ; 21 cm |
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Note |
Originally published: A. Knopf, 1987. Published with a new preface by Yale University Press in 1999. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
I. The Dream of Peace. 1. Einstein's Germany. 2. Fritz Haber: The Scientist in Power and in Exile. 3. Ernst Reuter: The Making of a Democratic Socialist. 4. The Burden of Success: Reflections on German Jewry -- II. The Lure of Power. 5. Germany 1933: Fifty Years Later. 6. National Socialism as Temptation -- III. Peace and the Release from Greatness. 7. Germany in a Semi-Gaullist Europe. 8. Germany and the United States: Visions of Declining Virtue -- IV. Historians and the German Past. 9. Americans and the German Past: A Century of American Scholarship. 10. Capitalism and the Cultural Historian. 11. The Speech to the Bundestag, June 17, 1987. |
Summary |
"This collection of essays by eminent historian Fritz Stern ponders the monumental promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history. It is now reissued with a new introduction by the author."--Jacket. |
Subject |
Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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ISBN |
0300076223 |
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9780300076226 |
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