Decades of Reconstruction: Postwar Societies, State-Building, and International Relations from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War (Publications of the German Historical Institute) - Hardcover

Edited By Ute Planert , James Retallack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107165741 ISBN 13: 9781107165748

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

International scholars review decades of postwar reconstruction in international comparison from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, demonstrating how foreign domestic policy cannot be separated.

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About the Authors

Ute Planert is Professor of Modern History at Universität zu Köln. She was a Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts and held the Hannah Arendt Visiting Chair of German and European History at the Munk School for Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Recent publications include 'International Conflict, War, and the Making of Modern Germany, 1740–1815', in The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History, edited by Helmut Walser Smith (2011), and the edited volume Napoleon's Empire. European Politics in Global Perspective (2015).

James Retallack is Professor of History and German Studies at the University of Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Germany's Second Reich: Portraits and Pathways (2015) and Red Saxony: Election Battles and the Spectre of Democracy in Germany, 1860–1918 (forthcoming). His current research project is a biography of the Social Democratic leader August Bebel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107165741
• ISBN 13: 9781107165748
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356