Download or read book A Short History of Germany, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Ernest F. Henderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of Germany, Vol. 2 Thus far the possessions of the House of Hohenzollern had been very modest indeed; but two generations after Joachim, under Elector John Sigismund, the grandfather of the Great Elector, there came a great change. Of the acquisitions to the eastward we shall speak in another con nection for the present, it is enough to trace the steps by which Brandenburg achieved three Rhenish provinces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.