German History 1770-1866

Zusatztext 'Every historian worth his salt should strive to produce such a book. Its length is its most immediately striking characteristic: 969 pages.'Panikos Panayi! History Today Zusammenfassung Professor Sheehan gives an extensive account of the social, cultural, and political developments in German history up to the Austro-Prussian war of 1866. The only study of the period available in English, this uniquely authoritative book will provide an indispensable guide to everyone interested modern European history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part One: Eighteenth-Century Background: Eighteenth-Century Politics; Eighteenth-Century Society; Eighteenth-Century Culture. Part Two: Germans and the French Revolution, 1789-1815: Confrontation and Defeat; Mastering the Revolution; Culture in the Revolutionary Era. Part Three: The Limits of Restoration, 1815-1848: Restoration Politics, 1815-1830; Growth and Stagnation in German Society; The Cultural Establishments and its Critics; The Growth of Participatory Politics, 1830-1838. Part Four: Towards a New Order, 1848-1866: Revoltion and Reaction; Society in the Age of the Bürgertum; Political Opportunities and Alternatives. Conclusion.

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• Authors: James J. Sheehan, James J. (Dickason Professor of Humanitie Sheehan, James J. (Dickason Professor of Humanities Sheehan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1990
• EAN: 9780198221203
• ISBN: 978-0-19-822120-3
• No. of pages: 988
• Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe; Oxford History of Modern Europe
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories