Ebook: Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich

A book by a major historian of Germany and Europe, looking at how four German regimes between the Thirty Years War and the Nazis thought about history and time itself, and how this understanding of temporality related to their forms of power.

This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German history—Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler—to look at history through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their regimes embody unique conceptions of time.