Research Catalog

Title

Questions on German history : ideas, forces, decisions from 1800 to the present, historical exhibition in the Berlin Reichstag, catalogue.

Publication

Bonn : German Bundestag, Publications Section, c1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Reichstagsgebäude (Berlin, Germany)
• Germany (West). Bundestag

Description

512 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, (some col.); 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte. English

Alternative Title

Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte.

Subject

• 1789-1999
• Germany > History > Exhibitions
• Germany > History > 1789-1900 > Exhibitions
• Germany > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Note

• Cover title: Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte.
• "English edition"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Political awakening and congress of Vienna -- The old empire -- The effects of the French revolution -- The German confederation -- Pre-1848 -- The German student association -- Economic development in the period preceding the 1848 revolution -- Social developments in the period preceding the 1848 revolution -- The political reform movement: liberals and democrats -- The national cultural movement -- Manifestations of the national movement -- National precedents in Europe -- Grouping of the political forces -- The revolution of 1848/49 -- The March revolution of 1848 -- The formation of the national assembly -- Establishment of the temporary central authority: the imperial administrator -- The basic rights of the German people -- The crisis of the national assembly and the second wave of revolution -- The fight for unity -- The campaign for the imperial constitution in the early summer of 1849 -- The reaction --^
• Industrial revolution and the establishment of the empire: imperial Germany -- Industrial revolution and the establishment of the empire -- The industrial revolution: social and political consequences -- Parties and associations -- The establishment of the empire -- Imperial Germany -- The little-German nation state: institutions, parties, problems -- The Reich under Bismarck -- Wilhelminian Germany -- German foreign policy 1871-1914 -- The first world war -- The Weimar republic -- The 1918/19 revolution -- The development of the Weimar republic -- The collapse of the republic -- The third Reich -- The path to the 30th January 1933 -- The consolidation of N.S.-dominance -- The N.S. state -- Power politics and resistance in the Reich -- The second world war -- Establishment and development of the federal republic of Germany -- 1945-49: the years of fundamental decision-making -- The Germany of the victors -- The establishment of democracy -- Economic reconstruction --^
• From the Reich to the federal republic -- 1949-63: the Adenauer era -- The establishment of parliamentary democracy -- Re-armament and integration with the west -- The "economic miracle" -- The social welfare state -- The Chancellor democracy -- 1963-69: the transition years -- Old and new problems -- The grand coalition -- The youth protest movement -- 1969-82: the era of the SPD-liberal coalition -- From the grand to the SPD-liberal coalition -- The new Ostpolitik -- Internal reforms -- Limits of the possible?

ISBN

3924521255

OCLC

• 25510250
• SCSB-11727396

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library