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By Bodie A. Ashton

ISBN-10: 1350000078

ISBN-13: 9781350000070

ISBN-10: 1350079707

ISBN-13: 9781350079700

This e-book examines the 1871 unification of Germany in the course of the prism of 1 of its 'forgotten states', the dominion of Württemberg. It strikes past the normal argument for the significance of the good powers of Austria and Prussia in controlling German future at the moment. Bodie A. Ashton champions the importance of Württemberg and for this reason all 38 German states within the unification method, noting that every had their very own associations and traditions that proved important to the eventual form of German unity.

The state of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815-1871 demonstrates that the state's govt used to be dynamic and in complete keep watch over of its personal policy-making all through lots of the nineteenth century, with Ashton displaying a prepared appreciation for the state's household improvement in the course of the interval. The ebook lines Württemberg's robust involvement within the nationwide query, and the way successive governments and monarchs within the state's capital of Stuttgart manoeuvred the rustic with a view to achieve the best virtue. It effectively argues that the form of German unification was once now not inevitable, and was once actually pushed mostly by way of the wishes of the Mittelstaaten, instead of the nice powers; the eventual Reichsgründung of January 1871 used to be simply the ultimate step in an extended sequence of negotiations, diplomatic manoeuvres and subterfuge, with Württemberg taking part in a necessary, local role.

Making use of a wealth of fundamental assets, together with telegrams, newspaper articles, diary entries, letters and executive files, this can be a very important research for all students and scholars of 19th-century Germany.

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