This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael V. Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, ...
The German Customs Union not only united the small states into a common market, but also carried out the first censuses in ...
But they repeatedly reversed these decisions. Apart from Austria, Prussia was the strongest German state. It was the only state that showed any real ability to unite Germany. It was clear that ...
Prussia's development as a successful, modern industrial state gave hope to German nationalists. Economically, unification through the Zollverein economic alliance of 1834 had been a success.
It approaches these questions from a new and important angle, that of the non national territorial state, exploring the state-building process in non-Prussian Germany. The issues covered range from ...
A ceremony in Berlin on Thursday marked the return of ancestral remains from Germany to Australia, highlighting ongoing ...
Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum collections since the 19th century have been ...