German history 1789-1871 : from the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich

Preface to revised edition -- A revolutionary challenge, 1789/1815 -- Germany before the French revolution -- The decline and fall of the Holy Roman Empire -- Napoleonic conquests and the Era of Reform -- Patriotism, nationalism, and the liberation of Germany -- The view from Vienna, 1815/1830 -- The German Confederation and conservatism triumphant -- Political life in the Era of Carlsbad -- Society and economy on the eve of early industrialization -- Art and the spirit of the times -- The Revolutions of 1830 -- Opening Pandora's box, 1830/1848 -- The politics of industrialization -- The bourgeois challenge -- The threat of the dangerous classes -- The politics of culture -- Answers to the German question, 1848/1871 -- The Revolutions of 1848/1849 and their aftermath -- A new realism for a new era -- Social change in town and country -- The view from the atelier -- The division of German Europe and the Bismarckian synthesis.