This book surveys Franco-German relations from the French Revolution to the 1990s, collecting the most current research from area specialists.

Autorentext
CARINE GERMOND is the Clifford Hackett Lecturer in the History of European Integration at Yale, USA.

HENNING TÜRK teaches history at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Inhalt
PART I: FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS FROM NAPOLEON TO WWI, 1800-1918 The Napoleonic Era in German Perspective; B.Struck France and the Prussian-Austrian Antagonism; J.Ulbert Franco-German Relations in the Bismarck Era, 1871-1890; N.N.Orgill History Writing and the Franco-German Conflict; H.Frey & S.Jordan PART II: FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS IN INTERWAR EUROPE, 1918-1945 Franco-German Relations and the Coal Problem in the Immediate Aftermath of World Wars I and II; L.Fasanaro Civil Society and the Push for Cooperation in the Locarno Era; E.M.Passman Two "Ill-Mannered Siblings": France and Germany in the Public Debate in the Interwar Period; V.Schoeberl Attempts at a French-German Rapprochement during the Second Half of the 1930s; F.Clavert France and Germany's Economy, 1942-1948; M.Libera PART III: POST-WAR FRANCO-GERMAN RELATIONS, 1945-Present A New Framework of Relations with Germany through European Institutions, 1950-1954; V.Gavin "Contre l'Amerique...": The Nuclear Essence of Franco-German Rapprochement, 1954-1958; M.L.L.Segers More than a "Geriatric Romance": Adenauer, de Gaulle, and the Construction of the Bonn-Paris Axis; R.G.Granieri "An Awkward Waltz": The Paris-Bonn-Moscow Triangle and the Shaping of Europe, 1963-1969; G.Martin Willy Brandt, Georges Pompidou, and Europe, 1969-1974; K.Ruecker Franco-German Relations in the Giscard-Schmidt Era, 1974-1981; M.Weinachter Francois Mitterand and Helmut Kohl; G.Saunier The Weimar Triangle; W.Vogel The "Other" Franco-German Relations; U.Pfeil