Germany's Two Unifications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Concept of National Unification

   • John Breuilly, Ronald Speirs

   Pages 1-25

3. Beginning and End? The Two German Unifications and the Epoch of Territoriality

   • Johannes Paulmann

   Pages 26-48

4. Illegitimate Unions? German and European Unifications Viewed in Comparative Perspective

   • Laurence McFalls

   Pages 49-61

5. Cultural Critique in the Two Unifications of Germany

   • Stephen Brockmann

   Pages 62-75

6. Identity in Difference: Collective Symbols and the Interplay of Discourses in the Two German Unifications

   • Rolf Parr

   Pages 76-100

7. Nationalism and the First Unification

   • John Breuilly

   Pages 101-121

8. How did German Federalism Shape Unification?

   • Abigail Green

   Pages 122-138

9. ‘Something Magical in the Name of Prussia…’ British Perceptions of German Nation Building in the 1860s

   • James Retallack

   Pages 139-154

10. For Country, Court and Church: The Bavarian Patriots’ Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German Unification

    • Erwin Fink

    Pages 155-171

11. The Structure of German National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871

    • Helmut Walser Smith

    Pages 172-184

12. German Literature and the Foundation of the Second Empire

    • Ronald Speirs

    Pages 185-208

13. Provincialism, Private Life and the Marginal Hero: Germany after Unification in the Works of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Spielhagen and Paul Heyse

    • Elystan Griffiths

    Pages 209-223

14. Theodor Fontane: Post-war Novelist

    • John Osborne

    Pages 224-240

15. Nationalism in the Second German Unification

    • Mary Fulbrook

    Pages 241-260

16. Historians, Unification and the ‘New National Paradigm’

    • Corey Ross

    Pages 261-273

17. Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser, Wolf: Reflections on the Process of Unification

    • Michael Butler

    Pages 274-291

18. From a ‘Multinational Republic’ to ‘The Promised Land’: Journals and Unification

    • Karoline von Oppen

    Pages 292-306

19. Conclusion

    • John Breuilly

    Pages 307-316

20. Back Matter

    Pages 317-340

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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.

• chronology
• empire
• Europe
• federalism
• Germany
• nation
• nationalism
• Protest
• Russia

'A unique academic collaboration to address a unique historical phnomenon.' - Daniel Johnson, Times Higher Education Supplement

• University of Birmingham, UK

  Ronald Speirs

• London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  John Breuilly

STEPHEN BROCKMANN Associate Professor of German, Department of Modern Languages, Carnegie Mellon University, USA MICHAEL BUTLER Professor Emeritus of Modern German Literature, University of Birmingham, UK ERWIN FINK University of Toronto, Canada MARY FULBROOK Professor of German History, University College London, UK ABIGAIL GREEN Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, UK ELYSTAN GRIFFITHS Research Fellow in the Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham, UK LAURENCE MCFALLS Professor of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada JOHN OSBORNE Professor Emeritus of German, University of Warwick, UK ROLF PARR Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany JOHANNES PAULMANN Helmut Schmidt Chair of International History, International University Bremen, Germany JAMES RETALLACK Professor of History and German Studies, University of Toronto, Canada COREY ROSS Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK HELMUT WALSER SMITH Vanderbilt Professor of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA KAROLINE VON OPPEN Lecturer in German, Department of Modern Languages and European Studies, University of Bath, UK

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