Germany's unique historical experience of undergoing national unification twice in a little over a century makes it a fascinating object of study. In this volume the processes of unification are analysed from the point of view of historians, political scientists and literary historians. Because each event had quite different historical pre-conditions (the first having been long anticipated and pursued, whereas the second took virtually all participants by surprise), the processes of adjustment to it have differed in many ways. Yet in each case the idea of national unity has held sway powerfully as a norm guiding the responses of those involved.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2004

ISBN

9780230518520

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

European Politics

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
List of Tables and Figures
Maps
1 The Concept of National Unification
2 Beginning and End? The Two German Unifications and the Epoch of Territoriality
3 Illegitimate Unions? German and European Unifications Viewed in Comparative Perspective
4 Cultural Critique in the Two Unifications of Germany
5 Identity in Difference: Collective Symbols and the Interplay of Discourses in the Two German Unifications
6 Nationalism and the First Unification
7 How did German Federalism Shape Unification?
8 'Something Magical in the Name of Prussia.. ' British Perceptions of German Nation Building in the 1860s
9 For Country, Court and Church: The Bavarian Patriots' Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German Unification
10 The Structure of German National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871
11 German Literature and the Foundation of the Second Empire
12 Provincialism, Private Life and the Marginal Hero: Germany after Unification in the Works of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Spielhagen and Paul Heyse
13 Theodor Fontane: Post-war Novelist
14 Nationalism in the Second German Unification
15 Historians, Unification and the 'New National Paradigm'
16 Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser, Wolf: Reflections on the Process of Unification
17 From a 'Multinational Republic' to 'The Promised Land': Journals and Unification
18 Conclusion
Outline Chronology
Further Reading
Index