The Struggle for Mastery in Germany, 1779-1850

by Brendan Simms

Book Overview

This book attempts to combine geopolitics, modernization theory and the primacy of foreign policy to provide a fresh perspective on the struggle for mastery in Germany before 1850. Any form of rigid determinism is eschewed; the outcome of this contest was still relatively open in 1780. Nevertheless, the book shows why after the upheavals--domestic and internal--of the revolutionary period, and the geopolitical revolution of 1815, Prussia and not Austria...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312213093
• ISBN13: 9780312213091
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 242 Pages