The Course of German Nationalism

ThearduouspathfromthecolourfuldiversityoftheHolyRomanEmpiretothePrussian-dominatedGermannation-state,Bismarck'sGermanEmpireof1871,ledthroughrevolutions,warsandeconomicupheavals,butalsothroughtheculturalsplendourofGermanClassicismandRomanticism.HagenSchulzetakesafreshlookatlateeighteenth-andnineteenth-centuryGermanhistory,explainingitastheinteractionofrevolutionaryforcesfrombelowandfromabove,ofeconomics,politics,andculture.Noneoftheresultswerepredetermined,andyettheiroutcomewasofmomentoussignificanceforallofEurope,ifnottheworld.