內容提要
“劍橋國別簡史叢書”(Cambridge Concise Histories)是劍橋大學出版社自20世紀八九十年代始陸續推出的一套插圖版國家簡史叢書。叢書作者均為英國、美國、澳大利亞等國的歷史學教授或知名專家。他們用通俗易懂的語言向讀者介紹了所述國家的政治、經濟，文化和社會歷史變遷。圖書權威、通俗，可讀性強。叢書出版後獲得了巨大成功，有的品種重印多達10餘次。我社從中精選10本奉獻給讀者。
《德國簡史》為叢書中的一本。本書介紹了德國自中世紀初期至今的曲折歷史。德國歷史的多面性和複雜性曾引發廣泛爭論和不同詮釋。瑪麗·富爾布魯克分析了大量的歷史材料，並從學術爭鳴的角度探討社會、政治和文化因素的相互關係。
本書初版於1990年，1992年進行了更新修訂，2004年推出第二版。它是用英語撰寫的有關德國歷史的唯一單卷本圖書，內容豐富。涵蓋面廣。本書既是從事德國，歐洲國情及歷史學研究的學生必讀圖書，也是普通讀者、商界人士或赴德遊客的津梁。
作者簡介
瑪麗·富爾布魯克：倫敦大學學院教授，研究德國歷史。曾遊學劍橋大學和哈佛大學。已出版多部著作，有PietyandPolitics：Religion and the Rise ofAbsolutism in England，Wiirttemberg and Prussia。A Histoly ofGermany 1918—2000：The DividedNation，Anatomy ofaDictatorship：Inside me GDR 1949一i989，German National Identityafter the Holocaust，Historical Theory等。
目錄
List of illustrations
Preface
1 INTRODUCTION：THE GERMAN LAND S AND PEOPLE
2MediaevalGERMANY
The beginnings of German history
Germany in the early and high middle ages
Germany in the later middle ages
3 THE AGE OF CONFES SIONALI SM，1500-1648
The German Reformation：the early years
The German Peasants’War
The development of the German Reformation
Germany in the age of Counter-Reformation
TheThirtyYearsWar
The Peace of Westphalia and the effects of the War
4 THE AGE OF AB SOLUTI SM．1648-1815
Absolutism and the rise of Prussia
Religion，culture and Enlightenment
The impact of the French Revolution
5 THE AGE OF INDU STRIALI SATl0N，1815-19l8
Restoration Germany,1815-48
The revolutions of 1848
The unification of Germany
Germany under Bismarck
Society and politics in Wilhelmine Germany
Culture in Imperial Germany
Foreign policy and the First World War
6 DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP，1918-45
The Weimar Republic：origins and early years
The period of apparent stabilisation
The collapse of Weimar democracy
The consolidation of Hitler’s power
Foreign policy and war
Holocaust，resistance and defeat
7 THE TWO GERMANIES，1945-90
The creation of the two Germanies
From establishment to conso“dation
Politics in the two Germanies，1949-89
Economy and society in West Germany
Economy and society in the GDR，1949-89
The revolution of 1989 and the unification of Germany
8 THEFederal Republic of GermanySINCE 1990
9 PATTERN S AND PROBLEM S OF GERMAN HI STORY
Suggestions for further reading
Index
