description: Fatherlands explores the nature of identity in nineteenth-century Germany, and has crucial implications for our understanding of nationalism, German unification and the German state in the modern era. 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 railway construction and German industrialization, to the modernization of German monarchy, the emergence of a free press, the development of a modern educational system, and the role of monuments, museums and public festivities.
language: English
title: Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany
titlecomplete: Fatherlands: State-Building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany (New Studies in European History)
ratings_count: 6
series: New Studies in European History
publisher: Cambridge University Press