The German Revolution of 1848-49

ISBN-13: 9780333712566 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 280 str.

Wolfram Siemann

Opis

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 Vormarz 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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

WOLFRAM SIEMANN is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Munich.