`monumental and deeply-impressive ... His text is remarkably well written, full of striking judgements and enlivened by frequent flashes of dry humour: it is extremely readable in a way that long books on German history have not always been.'Times Higher Education Supplement

• Introduction. Part One: Eighteenth-Century Background: Eighteenth-Century Politics; Eighteenth-Century Society; Eighteenth-Century Culture. Part Two: Germans and the French Revolution, 1789-1815: Confrontation and Defeat; Mastering the Revolution; Culture in the Revolutionary Era. Part Three: The Limits of Restoration, 1815-1848: Restoration Politics, 1815-1830; Growth and Stagnation in German Society; The Cultural Establishments and its Critics; The Growth of Participatory Politics, 1830-1838. Part Four: Towards a New Order, 1848-1866: Revoltion and Reaction; Society in the Age of the Bürgertum; Political Opportunities and Alternatives. Conclusion.

`monumental and deeply-impressive ... His text is remarkably well written, full of striking judgements and enlivened by frequent flashes of dry humour: it is extremely readable in a way that long books on German history have not always been.'Times Higher Education Supplement

• Introduction. Part One: Eighteenth-Century Background: Eighteenth-Century Politics; Eighteenth-Century Society; Eighteenth-Century Culture. Part Two: Germans and the French Revolution, 1789-1815: Confrontation and Defeat; Mastering the Revolution; Culture in the Revolutionary Era. Part Three: The Limits of Restoration, 1815-1848: Restoration Politics, 1815-1830; Growth and Stagnation in German Society; The Cultural Establishments and its Critics; The Growth of Participatory Politics, 1830-1838. Part Four: Towards a New Order, 1848-1866: Revoltion and Reaction; Society in the Age of the Bürgertum; Political Opportunities and Alternatives. Conclusion.

`monumental and deeply-impressive ... His text is remarkably well written, full of striking judgements and enlivened by frequent flashes of dry humour: it is extremely readable in a way that long books on German history have not always been.'Times Higher Education Supplement

• Introduction. Part One: Eighteenth-Century Background: Eighteenth-Century Politics; Eighteenth-Century Society; Eighteenth-Century Culture. Part Two: Germans and the French Revolution, 1789-1815: Confrontation and Defeat; Mastering the Revolution; Culture in the Revolutionary Era. Part Three: The Limits of Restoration, 1815-1848: Restoration Politics, 1815-1830; Growth and Stagnation in German Society; The Cultural Establishments and its Critics; The Growth of Participatory Politics, 1830-1838. Part Four: Towards a New Order, 1848-1866: Revoltion and Reaction; Society in the Age of the Bürgertum; Political Opportunities and Alternatives. Conclusion.