Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871

by Theodore S. Hamerow

Overview

A study of the economic and social changes which shaped the movement for German unification. The author emphasizes the effect of industrialism on urban life, traces the decline of manorialism in agriculture and seeks to show that the political movements of these years were profoundly influenced by the economic transition from agrarianism to capitalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400882755
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	03/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
File size:	653 KB

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
Part 1	Restoration	1
1.	The Origins of Industrialism	3
2.	The Decline of the Handicraft System	21
3.	The Agrarian Problem	38
4.	The Ideological Conflict	56
5.	The Hungry Forties	75
Part 2	Revolution	95
6.	The Spring Uprising	97
7.	The Frankfurt Parliament	117
8.	The Worker and the Revolution	137
9.	The Peasant and the Revolution	156
10.	The Fall of Liberalism	173
Part 3	Reaction	197
11.	The Conservative Fifties	199
12.	The Economics of Reaction	219
13.	The New Era	238
	Conclusion	257
14.	The Road to Unification	259
	Bibliography	263
	Notes	289
	Index	343

Editorial Reviews

"Most of the works in English devoted to nineteenth century German historical development tend to emphasize the political and ideological aspects of liberalism, reaction, and nationalism. In this excellent volume Dr. Hamerow turns his attention to the economic or material forces from which these politico-ideological factors arose."

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences

"Most of the works in English devoted to nineteenth century German historical development tend to emphasize the political and ideological aspects of liberalism, reaction, and nationalism. In this excellent volume Dr. Hamerow turns his attention to the economic or material forces from which these politico-ideological factors arose."

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

"Most of the works in English devoted to nineteenth century German historical development tend to emphasize the political and ideological aspects of liberalism, reaction, and nationalism. In this excellent volume Dr. Hamerow turns his attention to the economic or material forces from which these politico-ideological factors arose."—The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences

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