A History of Germany from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Name: A History of Germany from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Taylor, Bayard

Taylor, Bayard

Germany -- History

The book is, indeed, eminently fitted for use in the higher grades of
schools. But the scope, comprehensiveness, and style of the work make it
in no less a degree inviting and attractive to the general reader.

The material for the preparation of the additional chapter was difficult
of access, since the history of the last twenty years is on record
chiefly in monographs and in the public press. The best guide I have
found is the "Politische Geschichte der Gegenwart," by Prof. Wilhelm
Müller. The author of the present book was fortunate in being able to
close it with the glorious events of the years 1870 to 1871, and the
birth of the new Empire. The additional chapter has no such ending. It
deals with the beginning of a new era, and has to state facts, with an
eye to their results in the future.

                                                 MARIE HANSEN-TAYLOR.

NEW YORK, _1893_.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER PAGE

       I.--THE ANCIENT GERMANS AND THEIR COUNTRY.
           (330 B. C.--70 B. C.)                                       1

      II.--THE WARS OF ROME WITH THE GERMANS.
           (70 B. C.--9 A. D.)                                        10

     III.--HERMANN, THE FIRST GERMAN LEADER. (9--21 A. D.)            19

      IV.--GERMANY DURING THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES OF OUR
           ERA. (21--300 A. D.)                                       28

       V.--THE RISE AND MIGRATIONS OF THE GOTHS. (300--412.)          37

      VI.--THE INVASION OF THE HUNS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
           (412--472.)                                                47

     VII.--THE RISE AND FALL OF THE OSTROGOTHS. (472--570.)           55

    VIII.--EUROPE, AT THE END OF THE MIGRATION OF THE RACES. (570.)   63

      IX.--THE KINGDOM OF THE FRANKS. (486--638.)                     71

       X.--THE DYNASTY OF THE ROYAL STEWARDS. (638--768.)             80

      XI.--THE REIGN OF CHARLEMAGNE. (768--814.)                      92

     XII.--THE EMPERORS OF THE CAROLINGIAN LINE. (814--911.)         103

    XIII.--KING KONRAD, AND THE SAXON RULERS, HENRY I. AND
           OTTO THE GREAT. (912--973.)                               116

     XIV.--THE DECLINE OF THE SAXON DYNASTY. (973--1024.)            130

      XV.--THE FRANK EMPERORS, TO THE DEATH OF HENRY IV.
           (1024--1106.)                                             138

     XVI.--END OF THE FRANK DYNASTY, AND RISE OF THE HOHENSTAUFENS.
           (1106--1152.)                                             155

    XVII.--THE REIGN OF FREDERICK I., BARBAROSSA. (1152--1197.)      164

   XVIII.--THE REIGN OF FREDERICK II. AND END OF THE HOHENSTAUFEN
           LINE. (1215--1268.)                                       175

     XIX.--GERMANY AT THE TIME OF THE INTERREGNUM. (1256--1273.)     189

      XX.--FROM RUDOLF OF HAPSBURG TO LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN.
           (1273--1347.)                                             198

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