04853nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-63390-4 DE-He213 20251030113106.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240926s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031633904 978-3-031-63390-4 10.1007/978-3-031-63390-4 doi DAW1001-1051 HBJD bicssc 1DF bicssc HIS010000 bisacsh NHD 1DF thema Adam, Thomas. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85013 Germany and the World since 1815 [electronic resource] : Society, Culture, and Politics / by Thomas Adam. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 319 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Globalizing German History -- 2. Industrialization and Urbanization -- 3. The Founding of the German Confederation -- 4. The Revolutions of 1830 and 1848/49 -- 5. The Division of the German Confederation -- 6. The Divided German Society -- 7. Germans and Germany -- 8. The Emergence of Civil Society -- 9. World War I -- 10. Redefining Germany -- 11. The Introduction of Totalitarian Rule -- 12. The Nazified German Society -- 13. The Creation of the “Aryan Master Race” -- 14. World War II -- 15. The Creation of Two Alternative Germanies -- 16. Diverging Societies -- 17. The Peaceful Revolution in East Germany -- 18. Fitting East Germany into West Germany -- 19. The Berlin Republic. This textbook provides a history of modern Germany, locating the country’s social, cultural, and political developments within their proper global and transnational context. The author argues that most developments in German culture, society, and politics throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were caused by wider global and transnational trends. A history of the German people rather than the German state, the book focusses on non-state and non-government actors, intercultural transfers, and applies the approach of ‘thick description’ to analysing the creation of German culture, society, and identity from the era of the Napoleonic wars right up to the present post-unification Germany. This includes an examination of German migrants’ journeys to their new homes in the Americas and, thus, the creation of a global German diaspora with cultural and social networks beyond its home country’s borders. The book further focusses on the transfers that connected German society and culture with those of other countries; for instance, chapters cover the transfer of football from England to Germany, the transfer of the Christmas holiday tradition from Germany to other countries, and the development of eugenics in Germany within its global context. Thomas Adam is Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas, USA. From 2001 to 2020 he taught transnational and transatlantic history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has published and edited over 25 books and specialises in the study of intercultural transfers and the history of philanthropy. Among his most recent publications are Deutschland in der Welt (2021), The History of College Affordability in the United States (2020) and Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer (2019). Adam is also editor of the book series on Intercultural Transfer Studies. He has taught classes on German history in a global setting for a quarter of a century at the University of Toronto, the University of Texas at Arlington, and now at the University of Arkansas. Europe, Central History. 77403 World history. 65220 World politics. 58105 History, Modern. 70351 Civilization History. 66788 Social history. History of Germany and Central Europe. 77404 World History, Global and Transnational History. 66470 Political History. 67817 Modern History. 70352 Cultural History. 66790 Social History. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031633898 Printed edition: 9783031633911 Printed edition: 9783031633928 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63390-4 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 63711 63711