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Germany, 1800-1870 / edited by Jonathan Sperber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Short Oxford history of Germany
- The Short Oxford history of Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany--History--1789-1900.
- Germany.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 301 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- The years 1800-1870 were a crucial formative phase of modern German history. In 1800, the country was a patchwork quilt of principalities still formally under the authority of the Holy Roman Empire and increasingly subject to French domination. By 1870, under the dominating influence of Prussia, the country was in the midst of a victorious war against France, which would lead to its unification.
- This volume provides a comprehensive overview of this crucial era. The opening chapters provide a narrative of the major political and diplomatic events of the period and are then followed by detailed thematic studies of economy and society, culture and the arts, education and intellectual life, religion, the public sphere, gender, and the issue of nation and nationalism.
- Contents:
- A pre-unification era? 1
- Developments 3
- Interactions 11
- The German Empire of 1870 and the 'pre-unification' era 21
- 1 Political and diplomatic movements, 1800-1830: Napoleon, national uprising, restoration / Brendan Simms 26
- The Holy Roman Empire and its end 26
- Napoleon's Germany 30
- The Vienna Settlement of 1815 38
- 2 Political trends and movements, 1830-1850: the Vormarz and the revolutions of 1848-1849 / David E. Barclay 46
- The challenge of revolution and the recovery of popular politics, 1830-1840 46
- The final Vormarz years, 1840-1847 52
- Revolution, compromise, and counter-revolution, 1848-1850 56
- Aftermath: the Prussian Union project 66
- 3 Political and diplomatic movements, 1850-1870: national movement, liberal movement, great-power struggles, and the creation of the German Empire / Abigail Green 69
- The 1850s: a decade of 'reaction'? 69
- 1859-1866: pressures for change 76
- 1866-1870: a new beginning 85
- 4 Economy and society / Friedrich Lenger 91
- The agrarian world 91
- The beginnings of industry and an industrial society 105
- 5 Culture and the arts / Celia Applegate 115
- The ideal of the aesthetic community 116
- Experiencing culture and the arts 119
- The artists 128
- 6 Wissenschaft and knowledge / Andreas W. Daum 137
- 1800 and 1870: a comparison 139
- Wissenschaft as idea and practice: foundations and transformations 143
- The advent of analytical empiricism and history: discipline-building and specialization 149
- Beyond the ivory tower: Wissenschaft as public culture and the plurality of knowledge 156
- 7 Religion / Christopher Clark 162
- Revival 163
- Conflict 168
- Nationhood 180
- 8 The public sphere / James M. Brophy 185
- Literacy and sociability 187
- Censorship in the Vormarz, 1800-1849 195
- Political publics in the Vormarz 199
- The public sphere after 1848 203
- 9 Gender / Eve Rosenhaft 209
- A watershed in gender relations? 210
- Sexual character and its political consequences 211
- The middle-class household: school for life 215
- Gender and class in an era of national wars: men and violence 216
- Gender and class in an era of national wars: women and service 219
- Gender, the social question, and industrialization 222
- Gender and politics: critiques of the gender order 226
- 10 Nation and nationalism / Helmut Walser Smith 230
- Nationalism 236
- The spread of nationalism 247
- The revolutions of 1848 250
- The road to unification 252
- Looking forward / Jonathan Sperber 256.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [260]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199258376
- 0199258384
- OCLC:
- 54024212
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