Books by Helmut Bley
“It’s often forgotten—outside Germany at least—that the Germans, too, had an overseas Empire,” Read more...
The best books on Nineteenth Century Germany
Richard Evans, Historian
Interviews where books by Helmut Bley were recommended
The best books on Nineteenth Century Germany, recommended by Richard Evans
At the beginning of the 1800s, Germany was a collection of independent states. By the end, it had been unified under Prussian political leadership into one of the world’s great powers. Here, Richard Evans, Regius Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cambridge and Provost of Gresham College in the City of London, chooses five books on 19th century Germany that illustrate how that process unfolded and what the political, economic and social consequences of it were—intended and otherwise.
