Books by James J Sheehan
“This book is over 900 pages, but it’s a delight to read and gives you a narrative spine of German politics in the period…it came out in 1989…but it’s still the book on the subject” Read more...
The best books on Nineteenth Century Germany
Richard Evans, Historian
Interviews where books by James J Sheehan 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.
