Britain and the German Question: Perceptions of Nationalism and Political Reform, 1830-1863

ISBN-13: 9781349428298 / Angielski / MiÄ™kka / 2002 / 268 str.

F. Muller

Opis

Disraeli claimed that no country suffered more from the foundation of the German Reich than England. Bismarck's empire of 1871 did not, however, strike like a bolt from the blue. The question of German unity had been brewing for decades. Britain and the Germany Question reconstructs the way Victorians pictured the pre-history of the Reich from the July Revolution of 1830 until the eve of the 'Wars of German Unification'. It scrutinises how Britain's foreign political establishment - the diplomats, journalists and politicians who informed, determined and executed British foreign policy - analysed and responded to the Germans' search for a reformed, united and powerful nation state. It lays bare British interests, preconceptions and preoccupations and explains what kind of united Germany Britain would have welcomed. The book thus illuminates three themes crucial to our understanding of nineteenth-century Europe: the international repercussions of German nationalism; Britain's attitude to continental politics; and the interlocking of liberalism, nationalism revolution and reform.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: BRITISH PERCEPTIONS OF VORMÄRZ GERMANY, 1830-47 Subversion and Reaction in the Wake of the July Revolution, 1830-33 Reforms and No Reform Movement, 1834-47 PART II: BRITISH PERCEPTIONS OF REVOLUTIONARY GERMANY, 1848-49 Reform, Revolution and Reaction in the German States Revolution, Constitution and Nationalism in the Frankfurt Centre PART III: BRITISH PERCEPTIONS OF THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMECY, 1848-51 The Project of a Prussian-led Kleindeutschland , May 1848-April 1850 Austria's Campaign to Recover Her Role in Germany, 1848-51 PART IV: BRITISH PERCEPTIONS OF THE 'REACTION' AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FEDERAL REFORM, 1851-63 Suggesting Prussian Leadership: Perceptions of Germany, 1858-61 Spanners in the Prussian Works: Adversaries, Reaction and Conflict, 1859-61 Conclusion Notes Appendix Manuscript Source and Bibliography Index

O autorze

FRANK LORENZ MÃœLLER graduated from the Free University of Berlin in 1996, took his doctorate from Oxford University in 1999 and is now a Stevenson Junior Research Fellow at University College Oxford. He has published articles on German nationalism and Anglo-German relations in the nineteenth century.