German revolution of 1848-49
Wolfram Siemann ; translated by Christiane Banerji
- New York St. Martin's Press 1998
- xv, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Introduction: Coming to terms with the German Revolution of 1848-9: repression and identification -- PART I: STRUCTURES AND CRISES: German society before 1848 -- Middle-class organization and social protest -- The European point of departure, 1847-8 -- PART II: THE REVOLUTION: ACTION AND REACTION: The March and April Revolutions of 1848 -- The legitimization 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 the 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 to reaction -- Conclusion: 1848-9 and the crises of modernization