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Ron Speirs
Germany's Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses
Edited by Ronald Speirs and John Breuilly
Palgrave, December 2004 Hardback £55.00 1-4039-4653-1
Germany's unique historical experience of undergoing national unification
twice in a little over a century makes it a fascinating object of study. In
Germany's Two Unifications these processes are analysed from the points of
view of historians, political scientists and literary historians. In both
unifications the core of the process was the replacement of multiple
sovereignties by a single sovereignty. Although each unification enjoyed
widespread popular assent at the outset, each led inevitably to a protracted process of re-negotiating loyalties and identities. 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 particulars. Yet in each case the idea of national unity has held sway powerfully as a norm guiding the responses of those involved.
CONTENTS:
- The Concept of National Unification
- Beginning and End? The To German Unifications and the Epoch of
Territoriality
- Illegitimate Unions? German and European Unifications Viewed in
Comparative Perspective
- Cultural Critique in the Two Unifications of Germany
- Identity in Difference: Collective Symbols and the Interplay of Discourses in the Two German Unifications
- Nationalism and the First Unification
- How did German Federalism Shape Unification?
- 'Something Magical in the Name of Prussia...' British Perceptions of
German Nation Building in the 1860s
- For Country, Court and Church: The Bavarian Patriots' Party and Bavarian
Regional
Identity in the Era of German Unification
- The Structure of German National Consciousness: Protestants, Catholics and Jews, 1871
- German Literature and the Foundation of the Second Empire
- Provincialism, Private Life and the Marginal Hero: Germany After
Unification in the Works of Gustav Freytag, Friedrich Spielhagen and Paul Heyse
- Theodor Fontane: Post-War Novelist
- Nationalism in the Second German Unification
- Historians, Unification and the 'New National Paradigm'
- Cultural Polarities? Grass, Walser, Wolf: Reflections on the Process of
Unification
- From a 'Multinational Republic' to 'The Promised Land': Journals and
Unification
- Conclusion
- Outline Chronology
- Further Reading
RONALD SPEIRS is Professor of German at the University of Birmingham. He
has written or edited three books on Bertolt Brecht, one on Franz Kafka and
one on Thomas Mann, co-edited a volume on Fascism and European Literature,
and edited and translated the writings of the social and political theorist,
Max Weber, and the philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche.
JOHN BREUILLY is Chair in Nationalism in the Department of Government, at
the London School of Economics. He previously taught at Manchester
University from 1972 until 1995 and at Birmingham University from 1995 until
2004. He has held visiting Professorships at Hamburg and Bielefeld
Universities and was a Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin in
the academic year 2001-2.
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