from the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich /
Eric Dorn Brose
New and revised edition
xi, 376 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-367) and index
Preface to revised edition -- A revolutionary challenge, 1789/1815 -- Germany before the French revolution -- The decline and fall of the Holy Roman Empire -- Napoleonic conquests and the Era of Reform -- Patriotism, nationalism, and the liberation of Germany -- The view from Vienna, 1815-1830 -- The German Confederation and conservatism triumphant -- Political life in the Era of Carlsbad -- Society and economy on the eve of early industrialization -- Art and the spirit of the times -- The Revolutions of 1830 -- Opening Pandora's box, 1830-1848 -- The politics of industrialization -- The bourgeois challenge -- The threat of the dangerous classes -- The politics of culture -- Answers to the German question, 1848-1871 -- The Revolutions of 1848-1849 and their aftermath -- A new realism for a new era -- Social change in town and country -- The view from the atelier -- The division of German Europe and the Bismarckian synthesis