History of Germany 1780-1918 : The Long

This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One.This book is not available from Blackwell in the United States and the Philippines.

David Blackbourn is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. His previous publications include Class, Religion and Local Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (1980), The Peculiarities of German History (with Geoff Eley, 1984), Populists and Patricians (1987), and the prize-winning Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany (1993).

List of Maps

ix

List of Tables

x

List of Figures

xi

List of Plates

xii

Preface to the First Edition

xiv

Preface to the Second Edition

xxiii

Acknowledgements

xxiv

Prologue: Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century

1

(34)

Small Worlds

1

(9)

Political Fragmentation and the Territorial State

10

(10)

The Forces of Social and Cultural Change

20

(15)

Part I The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1848

35

(98)

1 In the Shadow of France

37

(32)

The French Revolution in Germany

37

(7)

The Impact of War

44

(10)

Reform from Above

54

(15)

2 Germany in Transition

69

(35)

Rulers, States, Identities

69

(10)

A Changing Society

79

(11)

The Development of Political Life

90

(14)

3 The Revolutions of 1848-9

104

(29)

From Spring to Autumn

104

(9)

Counter-Revolution and 'Second Revolution'

113

(11)

The Causes of Failure

124

(9)

Part II The Age of Progress, 1849-80

133

(102)

4 Economy and Society Transformed

135

(36)

Industrialization

135

(10)

Emigration, Migration, Urbanization

145

(12)

A New Class Structure

157

(14)

5 From Reaction to Unification

171

(33)

The Age of Reaction and the New Era

171

(13)

The Making of a United Germany

184

(11)

Division and Consolidation

195

(9)

6 Progress and its Discontents

204

(31)

The Culture of Progress

204

(10)

Religion

214

(13)

Doubts and Anxieties

227

(8)

Part III The Age of Modernity, 1880-1914

235

(113)

7 'Made in Germany': A New Economic Order

237

(28)

Agriculture, Industry, Small Business

237

(12)

Germany and the International Economy

249

(5)

Organized Interests, Politics and the State

254

(11)

8 Society and Culture

265

(39)

For Better, For Worse

265

(17)

Order and Discipline

282

(11)

Culture and Revolt

293

(11)

9 The Old Politics and the New

304

(44)

Elites, Parties and Popular Politics

304

(17)

Nationalism, Imperialism, Racism

321

(13)

Germany and the Coming of War

334

(14)

Epilogue: Germany at War, 1914-18

348

(27)

Front and Home Front

348

(12)

War Aims and Domestic Politics

360

(9)

Revolution and Beyond

369

(6)

Notes

375

(26)

Select Bibliography of English-Language Works

401

(18)

Index

419

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