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Finally available in English to coincide with the 150th anniversary, this highly original study of the German Revolution of 1848-9 examines the 'failure' of the revolution, its repression and the attempts to come to terms with this repression.
Professor Siemann's analysis centres on the contradictory forms of collective protest, the tensions in the social, agrarian and commercial spheres, the nature of the crisis cycles of the Vormärz period, the different stages of development in individual German territories and the regional centres of industrialisation and politicisation. It is against this backdrop that the 'failure' of the revolution is put into perspective.
Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: STRUCTURES AND CRISES
The German Society before 1848
Middle-class Organisation and Social Protest
The European Point of Departure 1847-8
PART TWO: THE REVOLUTION: ACTION AND REACTION
The March and April Revolutions of 1848
The Legitimisation of the Revolution
Political Associations and Middle-class Pressure Groups
Communication and the Public
The Paulskirche and the Parliaments
Nation-building and the Crisis of Nationalities
The Turning Point in the European Revolutions (Summer/Autumn 1848)
The Dynamics of the Revolution
The Imperial Constitution and the Election of the Kaiser
The Campaign for the Imperial Constitution (April-July 1849)
From Erfurt Union to Reaction
1848-9 and the Crises of Modernisation
Notes
Select Bibliography with Commentary
Index.
