A study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s.

Nationalism was ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, we know little about what the nation meant to ordinary people. In this book, both renowned histori

How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading