Germans and the revolution of 1848-1849 /

"German moderates and radicals were ill-prepared to function as a unit, carrying through their revolution of 1848 in order to produce a united constitution-based nation. Their Frankfurt Parlament has been unfairly blamed for the flasco. Failure was rooted in the socioeconomic situation of the e...

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Main Author: Randers-Pehrson, Justine Davis, 1910-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, ©1999.
Series:New German-American studies vol. 18.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The Stagnant Society: Sovereigns, Nobles, and Bureaucrats
  • Ch. 2. The Middle and Lower Classes
  • Ch. 3. The Educated Elite: Liberals and Conservatives
  • Ch. 4. Interaction. Societies, Secret and Otherwise
  • Ch. 5. Religious Protest and its Ramifications into Politics and the Women's Movement
  • Ch. 6. Railroads and the Zolluerein: Faltering Steps toward German Unity
  • Ch. 7. Disorder, Alarm and Repression; The Eighteen Thirties
  • Ch. 8. The Smouldering German Vormarz
  • Ch. 9. Germany's Restive Neighbors
  • Ch. 10. France en route to the Barricades
  • Ch. 11. The Monarchs at Bay
  • Ch. 12. Vienna Against Metternich - March Days 1848
  • Ch. 13. Friedrich Wilhelm IV and His "Dear Berliners" - March 1848
  • Ch. 14. Radicals versus Moderates; Tests of Strength
  • Ch. 15. Insurrection in Baden, The Heckerzug of April 1848
  • Ch. 16. The Frankfurt Parlament
  • Ch. 17. The Background for Counterrevolutionary Action
  • Ch. 18. Friedrich Wilhelm and the Prussian National Constituent Assembly
  • Ch. 19. Collapse of the Frankfurt Parlament
  • Ch. 20. Saxony, the Prussian Rhineland, and the Bavarian Palatinate in 1849
  • Ch. 21. On to Rastatt
  • Ch. 22. A Climate of Vindictiveness and Distrust
  • Ch. 23. A Few Words on Emigration to the U.S.