| Preface | ix |
Chapter 1 | The Germans and Germany to 800 | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Medieval Germany, 800-1300 | 28 |
Chapter 3 | Princes, Cities and Emperors, 1300-1519 | 51 |
Chapter 4 | Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1519-1648 | 73 |
Chapter 5 | From Desolation to Enlightenment, 1648-1789 | 97 |
Chapter 6 | The Coming of Age of Prussia, 1640-1786 | 118 |
Chapter 7 | Creating the Second Empire, 1789-1871 | 140 |
Chapter 8 | The Age of Bismarck, 1871-1890 | 162 |
Chapter 9 | The Age of Wilhelm II, 1890-1918 | 184 |
Chapter 10 | The Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 | 208 |
Chapter 11 | Nazi Germany and the Second World War, 1933-1945 | 230 |
Chapter 12 | After 1945: The Phoenix rising from the Ashes | 255 |
| List of Rulers | 285 |
| Chronology of Major Events | 289 |
| Major Universities and Founding Dates | 297 |
| Select List of Religious Buildings | 298 |
| Selected Readings on German History | 304 |
| Historical Gazetteer | 306 |
| Index | 317 |
| MAPS | |
| Physical map | 2 |
| The settlements of tribes from 200-600 AD | 9 |
| The kingdom of the Franks | 18 |
| The kingdom of Charles the Great | 24 |
| The Carolingian empire at the treaty of Verdun, 843 | 29 |
| Germany in the 10th and 11th centuries | 37 |
| Germany on the eve of the Reformation | 74 |
| The expansion of Brandenburg-Prussia up to 1786 | 121 |
| The Versailles Settlement, 1919 | 204 |
| The growth of Nazi Germany, 1933-39 | 244 |
| Occupied Germany and Austria, 1945 | 257 |
| Modern Germany | 278 |