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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, this book 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.

Key to Military Symbols -- pt. 1. The German War Machine on the Eve of War : Myth vs. Reality -- The Third Reich Ascendant : The Reasons Why -- pt. 2. Comparing the World's First Military Superpowers on the Eve of War -- History's Bloodiest Conflict Begins -- An Inconvenient Decision Confronts Germany's Masters of War -- Another Role of the Dice -- Stalingrad in Context -- The European War's Periphery -- Seizing the Initiative : The Sword vs. the Shield -- pt. 3. A New Perspective for Explaining D-Day's Outcome -- Hitler's Greatest Defeat -- How the Third Reich Staved off Total Defeat during the Summer of '44 -- End Game

Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and intercultural dialogue / John Walker -- Friedrich Schlegel's writings on India: reimagining Germany as Europe's true Oriental self / Michael Dusche -- Germany's local Orientalisms / Todd Kontje -- Tales from the Oriental borderlands: on the making and uses of colonial Algiers in Germanophone travel writing from the Maghreb around 1840 / James Hodkinson -- The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: figurations of the Oriental in the German-speaking world / Shaswati Mazumdar -- M. C. Sprengel's writings on India: a disenchanted and forgotten Orientalism of the late eighteenth century / Jon Keune -- Occident and Orient in narratives of exile: the case of Willy Haas's Indian exile writings / Jyoti Sabharwal -- Distant neighbors: uses of Orientalism in the late nineteenth-century Austro-Hungarian Empire / Johann Heiss and Johannes Feichtinger -- Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian letters and learning of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Margit Koves -- Where the Orient ends? Orientalism and its function for imperial rule in the Russian Empire / Kerstin S. Jobst -- Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech travel writing on Africa and Asia around 1918 / Sarah Lemmen -- Oriental sexuality and its uses in nineteenth-century travelogues / Ulrike Stamm

This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline's history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in the German Reich, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism and exile, before exploring sociology after 1945 as a 'key discipline' of the young Federal Republic of Germany, and reconstructing the periods from 1945 to 1968 and from 1968 to 1990. The final chapters are devoted to sociology in the German Democratic Republic and the period from 1990 to the present day. This work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, and to a general readership interested in the history of Germany. Stephan Moebius is Professor of Sociological Theory and Intellectual History at the University of Graz, Austria.

This open access book traces the development of sociology in Germany from the late 19th century to the present day, providing a concise overview of the main actors, institutional processes, theories, methods, topics and controversies. Throughout the book, the author relates the discipline's history to its historical, economic, political and cultural contexts. The book begins with sociology in the German Reich, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism and exile, before exploring sociology after 1945 as a 'key discipline' of the young Federal Republic of Germany, and reconstructing the periods from 1945 to 1968 and from 1968 to 1990. The final chapters are devoted to sociology in the German Democratic Republic and the period from 1990 to the present day. This work will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, and to a general readership interested in the history of Germany.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. United Germany in an Integrating Europe / Katzenstein, Peter J. -- 2. Shaping the Rules? The Constitutive Politics of the European Union and German Power / Bulmer, Simon J. -- 3. Hard Interests, Soft Power, and Germany's Changing Role in Europe / Anderson, Jeffrey J. -- 4. Placed in Europe: The Low Countries and Germany in the European Union / Kurzer, Paulette -- 5. Moving at Different Speeds: Spain and Greece in the European Union / Marks, Michael P. -- 6. Pulling in Different Directions: The Europeanization of Scandinavian Political Economies / Ingebritsen, Christine -- 7· Returning to Europe: Central Europe between Internationalization and Instiltutionalization / Anioł, Włodek / Brzica, Daneš / Byrnes, Timothy A. / Gedeon, Péter / Jeřábek, Hynek / Katzenstein, Peter / Poláčková, Zuzana / Samson, Ivo / Zich, František -- 8. The Smaller European States, Germany and Europe / Katzenstein, Peter J. -- Index

Bringing together incisive contributions from an international group of colleagues and former students, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective takes stock of the field of German history as exemplified by the extraordinary scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch. Through fascinating reflections on the discipline's theoretical, professional, and methodological dimensions, it explores Jarausch's monumental work as a teacher and a builder of scholarly institutions. In this way, it provides not merely a look back at the last fifty years of German history, but a path forward as new ideas and methods infuse the study of Germany's past

This report maps and analyses the core issues which together make up effective regulatory management for Germany, laying down a framework of what should be driving regulatory policy and reform in the future. Issues examined include: strategy and policies for improving regulatory management; institutional capacities for effective regulation and the broader policy making context; transparency and processes for effective public consultation and communication; processes for the development of new regulations, including impact assessment and for the management of the regulatory stock, including administrative burdens; compliance rates, enforcement policy and appeal processes; and the multilevel dimension: interface between different levels of government and interface between national processes and those of the EU. This book is part of a project examining better regulation, being carried out in partnership with the European Commission.