Table of Contents:
  • Preface to revised edition
  • A revolutionary challenge, 1789/1815
  • Germany before the French revolution
  • The decline and fall of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Napoleonic conquests and the Era of Reform
  • Patriotism, nationalism, and the liberation of Germany
  • The view from Vienna, 1815-1830
  • The German Confederation and conservatism triumphant
  • Political life in the Era of Carlsbad
  • Society and economy on the eve of early industrialization
  • Art and the spirit of the times
  • The Revolutions of 1830
  • Opening Pandora's box, 1830-1848
  • The politics of industrialization
  • The bourgeois challenge
  • The threat of the dangerous classes
  • The politics of culture
  • Answers to the German question, 1848-1871
  • The Revolutions of 1848-1849 and their aftermath
  • A new realism for a new era
  • Social change in town and country
  • The view from the atelier
  • The division of German Europe and the Bismarckian synthesis.