Social Foundations of German Unification, 1858-1871, Volume II: Struggles and Accomplishments

Theodore S. Hamerow

Published by Princeton University Press 1972

Social Foundations of German Unification, 1858-1871, Volume II

Struggles and Accomplishments

Theodore S. Hamerow

Volume 1454 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400869343

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This volume, together with its predeccessor (Ideas and Institutions, 1969), is an examinataion of the social and economic foreces that helped shape Germany in the mid-nineteenth century. The previous volume established the ideological and institutional framework; in Struggles and Accomplishments Mr. Hamerow discussess, within that framework, the forma nd achievement of German unification.

Using documentation from business, artisan, and workers' organizations, the press, and government archives, Mr. Hamerow considers the changes effected by the growth of an industrial society: among them, the new, mid-century confrontation between the established order (the crown and aristocracy) and the advocates of change (the propertied and educated bourgeoisie). The German Empire was, lie shows, the product of an unwritten compromise between the two groups, ready now to sacrifice the ideological principles that separated them for economic and political expediency.

Originally published in 1972.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part One: The New Era
1. The Challenge to Authority Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The Breakthrough of Industrialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. Commercial Policy and Political Hegemony Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Part Two: The Road to Compromise
4. The Constitutional Conflict Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
5. The Economics of Expediency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
6. The German Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Part Three: The Triumph of Nationalism
7. The Framework of Government Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
8. The Fruits of Victory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
9. Founding the Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
Alphabetical List of Cited Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
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