I: From first tribes to first empire. The barbarian complex : Roman-German relations in antiquity
From Merovingians to Hohenstaufens : Germanic rule in the Middle Ages.
II: The Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. Man and God : Germany in the Renaissance and Reformation
Europe's stomping ground : Germany during the Thirty Years' War
Enemy mine : absolutism and the rise of Prussia.
III: Enlightenment, reaction, and a new age. Trojan horses : from the French to the German revolution
Absolute spirit and absolute people : the intellectual torrents of the nineteenth century
Revolutionary conservatism : the age of Bismarck.
IV: Germany in the modern world. The last empire : from Wilhelmine to Weimar Germany
The barbarian prince : the rise and fall of National Socialism
The composite German : Germany since World War II.