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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521377595

ISBN-139780521377591

eBay Product ID (ePID)693223

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Number of Pages192 Pages

Publication NameCourse of German Nationalism : from Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 1763-1867

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1991

SubjectEurope / Germany, Europe / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorHagen Schulze

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN89-077388

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"...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

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal943

Original LanguageGerman

Table Of ContentList 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.

SynopsisHagen 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., 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., The arduous path from the colorful 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 splendor 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.

LC Classification NumberDD204 .S3413 1990