Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changes

Features updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and gender

Includes more in depth coverage of the German Democratic Republic

Examines Germany's social, political, and economic history

Covers the unification of Germany, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war division, the collapse of Communism, and developments since re-unification

Addresses regional history rather than focusing on the dominant role of Prussia