The History of Europe 1848-1918

For the first time in German: the wellknown historian analyses the history of Europe from the 1848 March Revolution to the end of WW I.

For a period lasting over six decades, between the barricades of the national uprising in 1848 and the trenches of the First World War, Europe was largely at peace and reached the zenith of its international standing. The historian Ernst Nolte examines what was fundamentally »European« in Europe’s history and compares developments in the individual European states. The social and political powers, trends and movements, such as the demographic and industrial revolutions and the beginnings of socialism, are all examined on a case-by-case basis.

Prof. Dr. Ernst Nolte, born in 1923, studied philosophy under Martin Heidegger at Freiburg, receiving his doctorate in 1952 and his post-doctorate in 1964. From 1965–1973 he was Professor of Modern History at Marburg, and from 1973–1991 at the Berlin Free University. He was a visiting professor and researcher at, amongst others, Yale, Wassenaar, Cambridge and Jerusalem. He was awarded the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Prize in 1985 and the Konrad-Adenauer-Prize for scholarship in 2000.