Germany's Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses (New Perspectives in German Political Studies)

The Concept of National Unification; J.Breuilly & R.Speirs Beginning and End? The To German Unifications and the Epoch of Territoriality; J.Paulmann Illegitimate Unions? German and European Unifications Viewed in Comparative Perspective; L.McFalls Cultural Critique in the Two Unificationsof Germany; S.Brockmann Identity in Difference: Collective Symbols and the Interplay of Discourses in the Two German Unifications; R.Parr Nationalism and the First Unification; J.Breuilly How did German Federalism Shape Unification?; A.Green 'Something Magical in the Name of Prussia...' British Perceptions of German Nation Building in the 1860s; J.Retallack For Country, Court and Church: The Bavarian Patriots' Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German Unification; E.Fink The Structure of German National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871; H.W.Smith German Literature and the Foundation of the Second Empire; R.Speirs Provincialism, Private Life and the Marginal Hero: Germany After Unification in the Works of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Spielhagen and Paul Heyse; E.Griffiths Theodor Fontane: Post-War Novelist; J.Osborne Nationalism in the Second German Unification; M.Fulbrook Historians, Unification and the 'New National Paradigm'; C.Ross Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser, Wolf: Reflections on the Process of Unification; M.Butler From a 'Multinational Republic' to 'The Promised Land': Journals and Unification; K.Von Oppen Conclusion; J.Breuilly Outline Chronology Further Reading