Table of Contents

List of TablesIThe Great Upheaval11The End of Empire: Germany under Napoleon12The Great Reforms193The Great War and a Difficult Peace67IILife, Work, Business851Population852Family, Gender, Generations973Everyday Life1114Agriculture and Rural Society1255Industrialisation1556Crafts1827The Lower Classes, Factories, Industrial Workers, Social Problems1918The Problem of Minorities: the Jews2179Bourgeois Society223IIIRestoration and Vormarz, 1815-482371The End of the Reforms: Constitutions and Restoration2372The Great Movements2503The State and the States2804German and European Politics3135The Effects of the July Revolution3236The Formation and Restructuring of the German Political Parties3337Vormarz350IVFaith and Knowledge; Education and Art3561Religion, Church, De-Christianisation3562Education: School and University3983The Sciences4284Aesthetic Culture: Music, Art and Literature4725The Reading Revolution and the Rise of the Press520VThe Revolution of 1848-495271The March Revolution5272The Road to the Paulskirche5373Extraparliamentary Movements: Denominational and Social Problems5474Germany and Europe5535Between Radicalisation and Counter-Revolution5606The Imperial Constitution and the Empire5797The End5888The Failed Revolution5909Epilogue: Germany as a Union of the States?595VIBetween Reaction and Liberalism: Bismarck and the Problem of German Unity, 1849-665991Reaction in Germany, 1849-595992German Policy in the 1850s6083Germany in Europe: From the Crimean War to the Italian War6124The New Era6205The German Question, 1859-636276Politics and Society: Changes in the Parties6367The Constitutional Conflict in Prussia and Bismarck's Minister-Presidency6678The Decision concerning Germany: German and European Politics, 1863-666849Consequences704Epilogue716Index717

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