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To a contemporary observer in 1780, the outcome of the struggle for mastery in Germany was entirely open. This new study shows why, after the upheavals - domestic and internal - of the revolutionary period and the geopolitical revolution of 1815, Prussia, and not Austria, was on the verge of winning the struggle for mastery by mid-century.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Germany before the French Invasion, 1779-1792
The Impact of the French Wars, 1792-1815
The Old Politics and the New Nation, 1815-1839
The State Versus the Nation, 1839-1850
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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Produktbeschreibung
To a contemporary observer in 1780, the outcome of the struggle for mastery in Germany was entirely open. This new study shows why, after the upheavals - domestic and internal - of the revolutionary period and the geopolitical revolution of 1815, Prussia, and not Austria, was on the verge of winning the struggle for mastery by mid-century.

Table of contents:
Introduction
Germany before the French Invasion, 1779-1792
The Impact of the French Wars, 1792-1815
The Old Politics and the New Nation, 1815-1839
The State Versus the Nation, 1839-1850
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Autorenporträt
BRENDAN SIMMS is Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge University