Table of Contents

1: Legacy of a Millennium
2: Hampered by Progress 1789-1830
3: Liberalism in Crisis 1830-1850
4: Unity before Liberty 1850-1871
5: The Transformation of Nationalism 1871-1890
6: World Policy and World War 1890-1918
7: The Impaired Republic 1918-1933
Looking Ahead

About the Author

Heinrich August Winkler was born in 1938 in Königsberg. He studied history, philosophy, and public law in Tübingen, Heidelberg and Münster. He was associate professor at the Freie Universität in Berlin in 1970-72 and then professor of modern history in Freiburg until 1991. He has been at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin since 1992, and has been a visiting scholar in Princeton, at the Wilson Center in Washington, at the Institute for
Advanced Studies in Berlin, and at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich.

Reviews

Germany: The Long Road West 1789-1933 is a magnificent examination of a country which, along with Russia, possesses a history that is arguably the most complicated in Europe. This book will be an immense asset to academics, students and, indeed, anyone with a serious interest in German history. Marcus Papadopoulos, Tribune [an] excellent book Contemporary Review magisterial...Winkler's magnum opus. TLS