Thomas Nipperdey offers readers insights into the history and
the culture of German nationalism, bringing to light much-needed
information on the immediate prenational period of transition. A
subject of passionate debates, the beginnings of German nationalism
here receive a thorough-going exploration, from the dissolution of
the Holy Roman Empire to Bismarck's division of the German-speaking
world into three parts: an enlarged Prussian state north of the
Main, an isolated Austria-Hungary in the south, and a group of
Catholic states in between. This altering of power structures,
Nipperdey maintains, was the crucial action on which the future of
the German state hinged. He traces the failure of German liberalism
amidst the rise of nationalism, turning it from a story of
inevitable catastrophe toward a series of episodes filled with
contingency and choice.
The book opens with the seismic effect of Napoleon on the German
"ancien-regime." Napoleon's modernizing hegemony is shown to have
led to the gradual emergence of a civil society based on the
liberal bourgeoisie. Nipperdey examines the fate of this society
from the revolutions of 1848-49 through the rise of Bismarck. Into
this story he weaves insights concerning family life, working
conditions, agriculture, industrialization, and demography as well
as religion, learning, and the arts.
Originally published in 1996.
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