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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Germany" (Robinson, 2022)
Description: This succinct history of Germany will take you on an incredible journey through time spanning from the 1500s to the present. Focusing on Germany in detail and in a global context, Jeremy Black uncovers the complexity of the country's past as well as the challenges and strengths of its future. The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war.In A Brief History of Germany (Robinson, 2022), master historian Jeremy Black, MBE questions how the Germany we know today came to be, chronicling the ev...