Questa serie si addentra nelle profondità della storia europea, esplorando l'ascesa e la caduta di potenti imperi e regimi politici. Enfatizzando la sintesi di eventi complessi con nuove prospettive, offre uno sguardo avvincente sulle ascese e i declini che hanno plasmato il continente. Dai miti medievali ai momenti cruciali del XX secolo, queste opere rivelano schemi ricorrenti di potere e democrazia.
This volume begins with the origins and consequences of the medieval myth of the 'Reich,' which was to experience so fateful a renaissance in the 20th century, and ends with the collapse of the first German democracy. The author offers a synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights.
Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany, offers the history of a nation and its people through two turbulent centuries. It is the story of a country that, while always culturally identified with the West, long resisted the political trajectories of its neighbours.This second and final volume begins at the point of the collapse of the first German democracy, and ends with the joining of East and West Germany in the reunification of 1990. Winkler offers a brilliant synthesis of complex events and illuminates them with fresh insights. He analyses the decisions that shaped the country's triumphs and catastrophes, interweaving high politics with telling vignettes about the German people and their own self-perception.The two volumes of The Long Road West , exploring the history of the German lands from the final days of the Holy Roman Empire to the very first of a reunified state in the late twentieth century, will be welcomed by scholars, students, and anyone wishing to understand a most complex and contradictory past.