Contents

List of Figures, Maps and Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 A German Revolution

A Political Nation

Constituting Germany

Unifying Germany

2 The Great Powers and the Austrian Question

Unholy Alliances

Austrians and the Vielvölkerreich

3 The Habsburg Monarchy and the Germans

Germany in the Presses of the Mittelstaaten

Parties in the Third Germany

The Case against Austria

4 The Third Germany and the Bund

Reaction and Opposition

Heimat and Nation

Reform of the Confederation

5 Prussia, the Nation and the Constitution

New Era, Old Politics

The Zollverein and the Economics of Unification

Bismarck and the Constitutional Crisis

6 The Struggle for Germany in Schleswig-Holstein

A War of Independence

The Forces of Progress

Conservatism, Bismarckianism and the Nation

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Index