Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany

New Studies in European History

by Abigail Green

Fatherlands explores the nature of identity in nineteenth-century Germany, and has crucial implications for our understanding of nationalism, German unification and the German state in the modern era. It approaches these questions from a new and important angle, that of the non national territorial state, exploring the state-building process in non-Prussian Germany. The issues covered range from railway construction and German industrialization, to the modernization of German monarchy, the emergence of a free press, the development of a modern educational system, and the role of monuments, museums and public festivities.

Genres: History, Germany, Politics

400 pages, Hardcover

First published September 6, 2001

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

A strong argument for state-particularism in the history of nineteenth century Germany