Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nineteenth-Century Germany: Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918 2nd edition

John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of scholars from the UK, Germany and the USA to examine Germany's history from 1780 to 1918. Split into two chronological parts, the book includes chapters on economic, demographic and social as well as cultural and intellectual history. There also chapters on political and military history covering revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the post-Napoleonic period, the revolutions of 1848-1849, the unification of Germany, Bismarckian Germany and Wilhelmine Germany, and the Germany during the First World War. This new edition, which retains the helpful further reading suggestions for each chapter and a chronology, has been completely revised and updated to take account of recent historiography. The statistical data has been expanded and there are also additional maps and images. There are two new chapters on transnational approaches and gender history. Finally the editor has added a conclusion which reflects on the key developments in the history of Germany over the “long nineteenth century”. Providing clear surveys of the central events and developments and addressing major debates amongst historians, Nineteenth-Century Germany is vital reading for all those wishing to understand this crucial period in modern German history.