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245 14 $aThe German genius :$bEurope's third renaissance, the second scientific revolution, and the twentieth century /$cPeter Watson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper,$c2010.
300 $axix, 964 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [857]-936) and index.
505 2 $a pt. 1. The great turn -- pt. 2. A third Renaissance, between doubt and Darwin -- pt. 3. The rise of the educated middle class: the engines and engineers of modern prosperity -- pt. 4. The miseries and miracles of modernity -- pt. 5. Songs of the Reich: Hitler and the "spiritualization of the struggle" -- pt. 6. Beyond Hitler: continuity of the German tradition under adverse conditions -- Conclusion: German genius: the dazzle, deification, and dangers of inwardness -- Appendix: thirty-five underrated Germans.
520 $a"A virtuosic cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day"-- Provided by publisher.
520 $aFrom the end of the Baroque era and the death of Bach to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among Western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more creative and influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In the early decades of the twentieth century, German artists, writers, scholars, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly unified country to new and unimagined heights. By 1933, Germans had won more Nobel Prizes than any other nationals, and more than the British and Americans combined. Yet this remarkable genius was cut down in its prime by Adolf Hitler and his disastrous Third Reich a brutal legacy that has overshadowed the nation s achievements ever since.
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