Fatherlands

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.