The German Question and Europe A History [Paperback]

What and where is Germany is a question that has been posed by Goethe and Schiller and has been one of the crucial issues in European politics for two centuries with tremendous consequences, even after German reunification.
This new study traces the evolution of the German question in its European context and through its various guises, from pre-unification times, through the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine empire to dictatorship, partition, and eventual reunification. His astute analysis provides important insights on both modern history and the political future of Europe.

An intelligent and readable guide to the question which caused most trouble in Europe from the Congress of Vienna to German unification in 1990. The book is an admirably concise survey and will be very useful to students. ???English Historical Review

Peter Alter is at University of Duisburg.