Abstract
As with ‘Italy’, the term ‘Germany’ had no real political significance at the turn of the nineteenth century, although the multitude of states which made it up were loosely linked by their membership of the archaic Holy Roman Empire. The French Revolution and Napoleonic conquests laid the basis for the movement towards unification which was reinforced by economic and social pressures.
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Further Reading
Mann, G., The History of Germany since 1789 (Chatto & Windus, 1968).
Ramm, A., Germany 1789–1918 (Methuen, 1967).
Sagarra, E., An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Germany (Longman, 1980).
Taylor, A. J. P. The Course of German History (Methuen, 1969).
Hamerow, T. S., Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815–1871 (Princeton, 1958).
Henderson, W. O., The Zollverein (Cambridge, 1939).
Kohn, H., The Mind of Germany (Macmillan, 1965).
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Miller, S.T. (1988). Germany 1801–48. In: Mastering Modern European History. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19580-0_7
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