The making of a German constitution
Subtitle: a slow revolution
By: Margaret Barber Crosby.
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781859738122; 9781859738177
Subjects: Constitutional history -- Germany; Civil law -- Germany -- History; Civil law -- Germany -- Codification -- History; Nationalism -- Germany -- History; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1848-1870; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1933
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transforming the Reich : toward a new political history of modern Germany; title: Prelude to modern Germany : iurisdictio and the German idea of sovereignty; title: Toward a German nation : Friedrich Karl von Savigny and the growth of legal politics; title: The Germanist and the growth of customary law constitutionalism; title: Undermining absolutism : the path of legalism and constituting the nation, 1846-1879; title: A century of promise : Eheliches Guterrecht, women's wealth and independence in nineteenth century Germany; title: Last bastion : the Burgerliches Gesetzbuch and the transformation of German society; title: Discontent in the Burgerliche society, 1900-1933 : Exclusion and popular resentment; title: The German idea of revolution, some final thoughts.