{"product_id":"early-modern-germany-1477-1806-9780812214277","title":"Early Modern Germany, 1477-1806","description":"\u003cp\u003eAttempts to present a coherent account of early modern German history are often hampered by the German equivalent of the Whig theory of history, by which all useful roads lead up to the creation of the nineteenth-century power state (\u003ci\u003eMachstaat\u003c\/i\u003e) or institutional state (\u003ci\u003eAnstalstaat\u003c\/i\u003e). In this kind of historiography, there are large blank areas between the important events like the Reformation, the Thiry Years War, the Seven Years War, and the French Revolution. During the intervals of apparent stagnation between these events, Germany seems to disappear, to be replaced by states such as Prussian and Austria, Saxony, Bavaria, and the Palatinate. Substantial areas are ignored, and groups such as the parliamentary Estates, which stood in the way of state-building, are virtually written out of most accounts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than focusing on the separate histories of the individual German states, Michael Hughes looks to the structure of the Holy Roman Empire in its final centuries and writes an account of Germany as a functioning, federative state, with institutions capable of reform and modernization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor nineteenth-and twentieth-century historians, the Empire was seen as the embodiment of division and weakness. But by examining the first \u003ci\u003eReich\u003c\/i\u003e, Hughes reveals the persistence of the idea of Germanness and German national feeling during a period when, according to most accounts, Germany had virtually ceased to exist. At the same time, he examines the element of continuity in Germany's development . . . in an attempt to discover how far back in Germany's past it is necessary to go to find the roots of the 'German problem, ' the Germans' search for a political expression of their strongly developed awareness of cultural unity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812214277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Hughes is a senior lecturer in history in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of Nationalism and Society: Germany 1800-1945 and Law and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40191893635187,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_de15e117-8e03-4077-be1f-86992a8f8fb4.jpg?v=1655906655","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/early-modern-germany-1477-1806-9780812214277","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}