Description: List of Maps List of Tables and Figures List of Plates Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century Small Worlds Political Fragmentation and the Territorial State The Forces of Social and Cultural Change PART ONE: The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1848 Chapter 1. In the Shadow of France The French Revolution in Germany The Impact of War Reform from Above Chapter 2. Germany in Transition Rulers, States, Identities A Changing Society The Development of Political Life Chapter 3. The Revolutions of 1848-9 From Spring to Autumn Counter-Revolution and 'Second Revolution' The Causes of Failure PART TWO: The Age of Progress, 1849-80 Chapter 4. Economy and Society Transformed Industrialization Emigration, Migration, Urbanization A New Class Structure Chapter 5. From Reaction to Unification The Age of Reaction and the New Era The Making of a United Germany Division and Consolidation Chapter 6. Progress and its Discontents The Culture of Progress Religion Doubts and Anxieties PART THREE: The Age of Modernity, 1880-1914 Chapter 7. 'Made in Germany': A New Economic Order Agriculture, Industry, Small Business Germany and the International Economy Organized Interests, Politics and the State Chapter 8. Society and Culture For Better, For Worse Order and Discipline Culture and Revolt Chapter 9. The Old Politics and the New Elites, Parties and Popular Politics Nationalism, Imperialism, Racism Germany and the Coming of War Epilogue: Germany at War, 1914-18 Front and Home Front War Aims and Domestic Politics Revolution and Beyond Notes Select Bibliography of English-Language Works Index

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