Genius, Power and Magic: A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner

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Before unification in 1871, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread, somewhat lacking in cultural cohesion. Yet between the end of the Thirty Years War and unification under Bismarck, Germany became the land of philosophers and poets, writers and composers. Roderick Cavaliero provides a fascinating overview of Germany's cultural zenith and its artistic exports - including the literature of Goethe and Grimm, the music of Wagner, Schumann and Mendelssohn and the philosophy of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Schiller and Kant. Providing a comprehensive and highly-readable account of Germany from Frederick the Great to Bismarck, Genius, Power and Magic is fascinating reading for anyone interested in European history and the extraordinary cultural legacy of this golden age.

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Roderick Cavaliero is a writer and historian. He is the author of Admiral Satan: The Life and Campaigns of Suffren, Independence of Brazil, Strangers in the Land: The Rise and Decline of the British Indian Empire and Ottomania: The Romantics and the Myth of the Islamic Orient (all I.B.Tauris) as well as The Last of the Crusaders: The Knights of St John and Malta in the Eighteenth Century and Italia Romantica: English Romantics and Italian Freedom (Tauris Parke Paperbacks).