TY - BOOK AU - Adam,Thomas ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Germany and the World since 1815: Society, Culture, and Politics SN - 9783031633904 AV - DAW1001-1051 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Europe, Central KW - History KW - World history KW - World politics KW - History, Modern KW - Civilization KW - Social history KW - History of Germany and Central Europe KW - World History, Global and Transnational History KW - Political History KW - Modern History KW - Cultural History KW - Social History N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63390-4 ER -