The Course of German Nationalism
From Frederick the Great to Bismarck 1763–1867

Hagen Schulze takes a fresh look at late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German history.

Hagen Schulze (Author), Sarah Hanbury-Tenison (Translated by)

9780521377591, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 March 1991

192 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg

"...Schulze provides a thoughtful analysis and an informative and useful volume....The translator is to be commended for a very readable history." Ernst C. Helmreich, History

The arduous path from the colourful diversity of the Holy Roman Empire to the Prussian-dominated German nation-state, Bismarck's German Empire of 1871, led through revolutions, wars and economic upheavals, but also through the cultural splendour of German Classicism and Romanticism. Hagen Schulze takes a fresh look at late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German history, explaining it as the interaction of revolutionary forces from below and from above, of economics, politics, and culture. None of the results were predetermined, and yet their outcome was of momentous significance for all of Europe, if not the world.

List of maps
Chronological table
Introduction
Part I. Three Weeks in March: 1. The chronicle of the 1848 Berlin revolution
Part II. The German Nationalist Movement's Road to the Creation of the Reich: 2. The background: Europe's transformation from an agrarian society to a modern civilisation of the masses
3. The rise of a national culture
4. What has become of the German Fatherland?
5. The nationalist movement's passage from an elitist to a mass phenomenon
6. From Rhine Crisis to revolution
7. 1848: the whole of Germany it shall be
8. On the road to a national economy
9. Speeches and majority decisions
10. Blood and Iron
11. Revolution from above and below
Part III. Documentary Appendix: Notes
Bibliography and source material
Notes to bibliography
A critical bibliography of works in English
Index.

Subject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], European history [HBJD]