With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification-and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany's evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history-the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime-are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany's leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation's history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation's borders.
Biografie
David Blackbourn, geboren 1949, ist Professor und Direktor des Center for European Studies an der Universität Harvard. Er ist einer der führenden Historiker, die sich mit der Entstehung des modernen Deutschlands beschäftigen. Sein zusammen mit Geoff Eley veröffentlichtes Buch Mythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung entfachte eine Debatte um den deutschen Sonderweg.
