Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis A history of Germany from the foundation of the German Confederation to the end of the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. The subject will concentrate on the domestic and foreign implications of `the German question' as it developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century - the development of German unity, the problems a united Germany caused for the European state system and the process of political and social change and development within the German states in this period. The subject will also study the German intellectual contribution to modern Europe in this period. The processes of unification, industrialisation and modernisation will be examined, as will the development of politics, society and foreign policy in Imperial Germany up to and including World War One and the German revolutions of 1918.
Assessment Written (4000 words): 40% + Examination (2 hours): 50% + Class participation/attendance: 10%