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| List of maps | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A pre-unification era? | |
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| Developments | |
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| Interactions | |
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| Patterns | |
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| The German Empire of 1870 and the 'pre-unification' era | |
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| Political and diplomatic movements, 1800-1830: Napoleon, national uprising, restoration | |
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| The Holy Roman Empire and its end | |
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| Napoleon's Germany | |
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| The Vienna Settlement of 1815 | |
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| Political trends and movements, 1830-1850: the Vormarz and the revolutions of 1848-1849 | |
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| The challenge of revolution and the recovery of popular politics, 1830-1840 | |
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| The final Vormarz years, 1840-1847 | |
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| Revolution, compromise, and counter-revolution, 1848-1850 | |
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| Aftermath: the Prussian Union project | |
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| Political and diplomatic movements, 1850-1870: national movement, liberal movement, great-power struggles, and the creation of the German Empire | |
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| The 1850s: a decade of 'reaction'? | |
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| 1859-1866: pressures for change | |
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| 1866-1870: a new beginning | |
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| Economy and society | |
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| The agrarian world | |
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| The beginnings of industry and an industrial society | |
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| Culture and the arts | |
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| The ideal of the aesthetic community | |
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| Experiencing culture and the arts | |
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| The artists | |
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| Wissenschaft and knowledge | |
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| 1800 and 1870: a comparison | |
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| Wissenschaft as idea and practice: foundations and transformations | |
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| The advent of analytical empiricism and history: discipline-building and specialization | |
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| Beyond the ivory tower: Wissenschaft as public culture and the plurality of knowledge | |
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| Religion | |
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| Revival | |
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| Conflict | |
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| Nationhood | |
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| The public sphere | |
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| Literacy and sociability | |
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| Censorship in the Vormarz, 1800-1849 | |
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| Political publics in the Vormarz | |
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| The public sphere after 1848 | |
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| Gender | |
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| A watershed in gender relations? | |
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| Sexual character and its political consequences | |
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| The middle-class household: school for life | |
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| Gender and class in an era of national wars: men and violence | |
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| Gender and class in an era of national wars: women and service | |
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| Gender, the social question, and industrialization | |
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| Gender and politics: critiques of the gender order | |
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| Nation and nationalism | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| The spread of nationalism | |
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| The revolutions of 1848 | |
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| The road to unification | |
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| Looking forward | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Maps | |