Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century GermanyFatherlands 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 industrialisation, to the modernisation 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. |
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Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany Abigail Green No preview available - 2004 |
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