Reader(s): McArdle, Nick
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: NA0378
Barcode: 9781781982754
Release Date: 05/2019

FULBROOK, M.: Concise History of Germany (A) (Unabridged)

This audiobook provides a clear and informative guide to the twists and turns of German history from the early Middle Ages to the present day. The multi-faceted, problematic history of the German lands has furnished a wide range of debates and differences of interpretation. Mary Fulbrook provides a crisp synthesis of a vast array of historical material, and explores the interrelationships between social, political and cultural factors in the light of scholarly controversies. First published in 1990, A Concise History of Germany is the only single-volume history of Germany in English that offers a broad, general coverage. It has become standard reading for English-speaking students of German, European studies and history, and is a useful guide to general readers, members of the business community and travellers to Germany.

Tracklist

Fulbrook, Mary Jean Alexandra - Author
McArdle, Nick (Reader)
1A Concise History of Germany08:27
McArdle, Nick (Reader)
2Historically, formed as they are of regions…09:35
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3Chapter 209:38
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4In the middle of the fourteenth century…09:23
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5The Ottonian and early Salian kings…07:56
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6The outcome of the so-called 'Investiture Contest'…07:30
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7Germany in the Later Middle Ages12:03
McArdle, Nick (Reader)
8From the late fourteenth and early fifteenth…12:37
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9Chapter 314:21
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10What were the main points of Luther's theology?13:14
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11The Development of the German Reformation11:39
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12The Peace of Augsburg left a number of problems…11:44
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13In all territories, of whichever religious…10:44
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14The outbreak of the Thirty Years War proper…08:08
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15In 1631 the Catholic General Tilly savagely…11:51
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16Geoffrey Parker suggests that the population…09:16
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17Chapter 408:27
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18The German territories after 1648 were of…08:32
McArdle, Nick (Reader)
19The foundations for absolutist rule were laid by…10:48
McArdle, Nick (Reader)
20In 1740, Prussia invaded the Habsburg…07:34
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21Everywhere, rulers had to contend with a range…10:57
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22In 1731, around 20,000 Protestants from…12:29
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23Perhaps the greatest German Enlightenment…08:47
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24The Impact of the French Revolution12:38
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25In 1807, serfdom was abolished. Since peasants…12:44
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26Chapter 511:44
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27The notion of opposition was extended…08:26
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28In literature, the period is characterised by…09:46
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29As shown, the mid and later 1840s…08:41
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30Since the Austrian emperor was unwilling to…07:06
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31The Unification of Germany12:10
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32While nationalist support for the resistance…09:07
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33Germany Under Bismarck09:02
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34The depression which had started in the 1870s…09:22
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35Germany's output of manufactured goods went…10:32
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36Along with the Pan-German League…09:51
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37A similar diversity characterised leisure pursuits…12:54
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38The spark that finally ignited war in 1914…09:46
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39Chapter 612:07
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40Two very crucial compromises were reached…11:08
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41Meanwhile, splits among the left-wing parties…09:43
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42In the 1926 Berlin Treaty Germany assured…12:37
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43The Collapse of Weimar Democracy09:50
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44In the November elections of 1932 the NSDAP…09:22
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45On 30 January 1934, one year after Hitler's…10:58
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46At the level of popular opinion, too, the picture…10:15
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47In March 1935 the existence of a German…08:27
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48After a week of mounting tension, the situation…08:02
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49Germany was fighting on three fronts, and…11:22
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50Whatever the extent to which people 'knew'…08:13
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51Chapter 708:29
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52By 1949, the Soviet zone had undergone what…11:05
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53From Establishment to Consolidation11:29
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54While the number of refugees prepared to…09:51
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55Renewed constraint was evident in most cultural…10:30
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56The SPD now sought to compete with the…08:37
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57At the bottom were the basic cells, usually…11:21
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58Many East Germans were prepared to conform…09:24
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59With rising unemployment, as well as an…11:29
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60The 1950s were characterised first by a Stalinist…12:06
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61There was greater social mobility in East than…10:59
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62Other East Germans, seeing the nightly West…14:28
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63Chapter 811:36
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64While it proved remarkably difficult to bring…10:37
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65Chapter 911:34
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