Schulze Hagen. The course of German nationalism: From Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 1763-1867

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 9780521377591; ISBN13: 978-0521377591The arduous path from the colorful diversity of the Holy Roman Empire to the Prussian-dominated German nation-state, Bismarck's German Empire of 1871, led through revolutions, wars and economic upheavals, but also through the cultural splendor of German Classicism and Romanticism. Hagen Schulze takes a fresh look at late eighteenth and nineteenth century German history, explaining it as the interaction of revolutionary forces from below and from above, of economics, politics, and culture. None of the results were predetermined, and yet their outcome was of momentous significance for all of Europe, if not the world.Three weeks in MarchThe chronicle of the 1848 Berlin revolutionThe German nationalist movement’s road to the creation of the ReichThe background: Europe’s transformation from an agrarian society to a modern civilisation of the masses
The rise of a national culture
What has become of the German Fatherland?
The nationalist movement’s passage from an elitist to a mass phenomenon
From Rhine Crisis to revolution
1848: the whole of Germany it shall be
On the road to a national economy
Speeches and majority decisions
Blood and Iron
Revolution from above and belowDocumentary appendixNotes
Bibliography and source material
Notes to bibliography
A critical bibliography of works in English