Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806

by Michael Hughes

Book Overview

Attempts to present a coherent account of early modern German history are often hampered by the German equivalent of the Whig theory of history, by which all useful roads lead up to the creation of the nineteenth-century power state (Machstaat) or institutional state (Anstalstaat). In this kind of historiography, there are large "blank" areas between the "important" events like the Reformation, the Thiry Years War, the Seven Years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812214277
• ISBN13: 9780812214277
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"