Product Description: Mark Hewitson reassesses the relationship between politics and the nation during a crucial period in order to answer the question of when, how and why the process of unification began in Germany. He focuses on how the national question was articulated in the public sphere by the press, political writers and key political organizations...read more

Product Description: This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. By analyzing Wilhelmine depictions of the French Third Republic, Dr Hewitson revises accepted interpretations of German politics and nationalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)