- 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.
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Available in English to coincide with the 150th anniversary, this 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 different stages of development in individual German territories and the regional centres of industrialization and politicization. It is against this backdrop that the "failure" of the revolution is put into perspective. The work is intended for undergraduate courses on the European Revolutions of 1848-9, for undergraduate courses on 19th-century Germany, and for students of history.
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