Esta serie se adentra en las profundidades de la historia europea, explorando el auge y la caída de poderosos imperios y regímenes políticos. Con énfasis en la síntesis de eventos complejos y perspectivas novedosas, ofrece una visión cautivadora de los ascensos y descensos que moldearon el continente. Desde mitos medievales hasta momentos cruciales del siglo XX, estas obras revelan patrones recurrentes de poder y democracia.
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.