Germany’s Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
The Concept of National Unification....Pages 1-25
Beginning and End? The Two German Unifications and the Epoch of Territoriality....Pages 26-48
Illegitimate Unions? German and European Unifications Viewed in Comparative Perspective....Pages 49-61
Cultural Critique in the Two Unifications of Germany....Pages 62-75
Identity in Difference: Collective Symbols and the Interplay of Discourses in the Two German Unifications....Pages 76-100
Nationalism and the First Unification....Pages 101-121
How did German Federalism Shape Unification?....Pages 122-138
‘Something Magical in the Name of Prussia…’ British Perceptions of German Nation Building in the 1860s....Pages 139-154
For Country, Court and Church: The Bavarian Patriots’ Party and Bavarian Regional Identity in the Era of German Unification....Pages 155-171
The Structure of German National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871....Pages 172-184
German Literature and the Foundation of the Second Empire....Pages 185-208
Provincialism, Private Life and the Marginal Hero: Germany after Unification in the Works of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Spielhagen and Paul Heyse....Pages 209-223
Theodor Fontane: Post-war Novelist....Pages 224-240
Nationalism in the Second German Unification....Pages 241-260
Historians, Unification and the ‘New National Paradigm’....Pages 261-273
Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser, Wolf: Reflections on the Process of Unification....Pages 274-291
From a ‘Multinational Republic’ to ‘The Promised Land’: Journals and Unification....Pages 292-306
Conclusion....Pages 307-316
Back Matter....Pages 317-340