Preface to revised edition
A revolutionary challenge, 1789/1815
Germany before the French revolution
The decline and fall of the Holy Roman Empire
Napoleonic conquests and the Era of Reform
Patriotism, nationalism, and the liberation of Germany
The view from Vienna, 1815-1830
The German Confederation and conservatism triumphant
Political life in the Era of Carlsbad
Society and economy on the eve of early industrialization
Art and the spirit of the times
The Revolutions of 1830
Opening Pandora's box, 1830-1848
The politics of industrialization
The bourgeois challenge
The threat of the dangerous classes
The politics of culture
Answers to the German question, 1848-1871
The Revolutions of 1848-1849 and their aftermath
A new realism for a new era
Social change in town and country
The view from the atelier
The division of German Europe and the Bismarckian synthesis.