Germany in the eighteenth century: society and state -- From rivalry to survival: Prussia and Austria, 1740-1815 -- From liberalism to nationalism 1815-1862 -- The German revolution: the primacy of Prussia, 1862-1890 -- Imperial promise: Wilhelmian Germany, 1890-1914 -- Finis Germaniae? war and revolution, 1914-1918 -- The unwanted republic: Weimar Germany, 1919-1933 -- The brown revolution: national socialism, 1933-1939 -- "World power or demise": Hitler's foreign policy, 1933-1945 -- A house divided: Germany, 1945-1960 -- Two states, one nation, 1961-1989 -- "The great socialist October revolution," 1989.