Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: From generation to generation
  • 2. The Romantic Age: 1815-40
  • 3. A revolutionary generation: the 1840s and the Revolutions of 1848
  • 4. The age of realism, 1850-71
  • 5. An anxious generation, 1871-90
  • 6. Neoclassical facade and modernist revolt, 1890-1914
  • 7. Politics, governance, and diplomacy between neoclassicism and modernism
  • 8. The first world war
  • 9. An expressionist age: The Weimar republic, 1918-33
  • 10. The politics of feeling and the search for stability
  • 11. A "German style": the Nazi generation
  • 12. Nazi politics: the road to war and the Holocaust
  • 13. Abstract expressionism and socialist realism: divided Germany in an age of economic miracles
  • 14. A postmodern generation: West and East Germany after the miracle, 1973-89
  • 15. Neo-realism: reunification and reunited Germany.