Nineteenth-Century Germany: Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918, Paperback

John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany's history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on economic, demographic and social as well as cultural and intellectual history. There are also chapters on political and military history covering the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the post-Napoleonic period, the revolutions of 1848-1849, the unification of Germany, Bismarckian Germany and Wilhelmine Germany, and 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 updated to take account of recent historiography. The statistical data has been expanded, more maps and images have been introduced, and 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.

John Breuilly is Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics, UK. His books include Nationalism and the State (2nd Ed., 1993), The Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871 (1996), Austria, Prussia and The Making of Germany: 1806-1871 (2nd Ed., 2011). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (2013).