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

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