German History 1770 1866 by James J. Sheehan
A concise scholarly survey of the political, social, economic, and cultural transformations in the German lands between the late ancien régime and the eve of national unification, tracing how the French Revolution, Napoleonic reforms, and subsequent state-building reshaped legal institutions, social classes, and economic life. It examines the uneven processes of industrialization, urbanization, and the spread of new political ideologies—liberalism, conservatism, and nationalism—and how these forces produced revolutionary upheaval in 1848 and fostered competing visions of German unity. The narrative highlights the growing preeminence of Prussia, the changing relationship between state and society, and the intellectual debates that framed modern German identity, culminating in the diplomatic and military conditions that made unification under Prussian leadership possible by 1866.
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- 1989
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- English
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