A History of Germany

A History of Germany

Bayard Taylor, american poet, literary critic, translator, and travel author (1825-1878)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- PREFACE

-03- THE ANCIENT GERMANS AND THEIR COUNTRY

-04- THE WARS OF ROME WITH THE GERMANS

-05- HERMANN, THE FIRST GERMAN LEADER

-06- GERMANY DURING THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES OF OUR ERA

-07- THE RISE AND MIGRATIONS OF THE GOTHS

-08- THE INVASION OF THE HUNS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

-09- THE RISE AND FALL OF THE OSTROGOTHS

-10- EUROPE, AT THE END OF THE MIGRATION OF THE RACES

-11- THE KINGDOM OF THE FRANKS

-12- THE DYNASTY OF THE ROYAL STEWARDS

-13- THE REIGN OF CHARLEMAGNE

-14- THE EMPERORS OF THE CAROLINGIAN LINE

-15- KING KONRAD, AND THE SAXON RULERS, HENRY I. AND OTTO THE GREAT

-16- THE DECLINE OF THE SAXON DYNASTY

-17- THE FRANK EMPERORS, TO THE DEATH OF HENRY IV

-18- END OF THE FRANK DYNASTY

-19- THE REIGN OF FREDERICK I., BARBAROSSA

-20- THE REIGN OF FREDERICK II. AND END OF THE HOHENSTAUFEN LINE

-21- GERMANY AT THE TIME OF THE INTERREGNUM

-22- FROM RUDOLF OF HAPSBURG TO LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN

-23- THE LUXEMBURG EMPERORS, KARL IV. AND WENZEL

-24- THE REIGN OF SIGISMUND AND THE HUSSITE WAR

-25- THE FOUNDATION OF THE HAPSBURG DYNASTY

-26- GERMANY, DURING THE REIGN OF MAXIMILIAN I

-27- THE REFORMATION

-28- FROM LUTHER'S DEATH TO THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY

-29- BEGINNING OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

-30- TILLY, WALLENSTEIN AND GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS

-31- END OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR

-32- GERMANY, TO THE PEACE OF RYSWICK

-33- THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION

-34- THE RISE OF PRUSSIA

-35- THE REIGN OF FREDERICK THE GREAT

-36- GERMANY UNDER MARIA THERESA AND JOSEPH II

-37- FROM THE DEATH OF JOSEPH II. TO THE END OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE

-38- GERMANY UNDER NAPOLEON

-39- FROM THE LIBERATION OF GERMANY TO THE YEAR 1848

-40- THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 AND ITS RESULTS

-41- THE STRUGGLE WITH AUSTRIA

-42- THE WAR WITH FRANCE

-43- THE NEW GERMAN EMPIRE

-44- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE