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List if maps VIll
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List if Prussian monarchs .xi
List if Prussian heads if state .xii
Preface .xiii
Aboutthe contributors .xvi
Introduction: Modern Prussia - continuity and change
Philip G. Dwyer 1
Conservatives and the monarchy 4-
The urban and rural environments 8
Religion in state and society 12
The state, the army and Prussianism 16
1. Prussia in history and historiography from the nineteenth
to the twentieth centuries
Stefan Berger 21
Modifying and transforming Prussianism in the Kaiserreich 22
Prussian historiography in the Weimar Republic 24-
Symbiosis or resistance? Prussian historiography under National Socialism 27
The history of Prussia after the end of Prussia: The GDR 29
The history of Prussia after the end of Prussia: The FRG 33
Prussian history in the reunified Germany since 1990 38
PART ONE: CONSERVATIVES AND THE MONARCHY
2. Restoration Prussia
Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann .43
Defining'Restoration' 4-3
Restoration as the programme of a 'party' .46
Early anti-revolutionary proclamations 4-8
A moderate king, the reform ministers and their adversaries 50
Romanticism and Restoration ideology 53
The Restoration Party gains ground 56
Hunting down the Zeitgeist 59
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Tran sforming the military into an instrument of royal prerogative 61
Conclusion 62
3. Revolution and counter-revolution in Prussia, 1840- 50
DavidE. Barclay 66
The coming of revolution, 1840-48 67
The liberal and democratic revolutions, spring - autumn 1848 73
Counter-revolution and compromise, spring 1848 - J anuary 1850 79
Aftershocks, 1849-50 : .83
4. T he cha nging concerns of Prussian conservatism, 1830- 1914
Hermann Beck 86
The theoretical foundations of Prussian conservatism 88
The search for a new identity 93
The development of conservatism in the empire 97
PART T WO: THE UR BAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS
5. The Prussian Zollverein and the bid for economic superiority
Hans-J oachim Voth 109
Launchpad for take-off or precursor of unification? 110
German economic development 11 3
Prussia's political influence 118
Prussia's economic power 120
Conclusion 124
6. The Prussian labour movement, 1871-1 914
Dick Geary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126
The nation al context 126
Varieties of Prussian labour 129
Epilogue: Prussian labour in the Weimar Republic 14·3
7. Agrarian transform ation and right radicalism: Economics and
politics in rural Pru ssia, 1830-1 947
Shelley Baranowski 146
Agricultural change and political mobilization, 1830- 1914- 147
War-making, urban priorities and the decline of agrarian influence,
1914-33 156
Unkept promises: Prussian agriculture from the T hird Reich to the
occupation, 1933- 47 163
PART T HREE: RELIGI O N IN STATE AN D SOCIETY
8. Religious conflicts and Germa n national identity in Prussia, 1866-1 914·
MarjorieLamberti 169
Protestant liberals and Catholics in the era of national unification ; .170
The Kulturkampf I 74
Religious cleavages and antago nisms in public life I78
The historical consequences 186
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9. Prussian Protestantism
Nicholas Hope 188
A search for identity and establishment 190
A fragile new constitutional ('synodal') church order 195
War and peace 199
PART FOUR: PRUSSIA, THE STATE AND PRUSSIANISM
10. Democratic Prussia in Weimar Germany, 1919-33
Hagen Schulze 211
The transformation of the pillars of monarchical authority 214
The demise of the Prussian state 225
11. Prussia's military legacy in Empire, Republic and Reich,
1871-1945
Dennis Showalter 230
A Prussian army or a German one? The imperial years 232
The Great War: From spiked helmets to steel helmets 238
Weimar and the Prussian military heritage 240
The Nazi years: Old wine in a new bottle? 244
Conclusion 251
12. Prussia, Prussianism and National Socialism, 1933-47
Brendan Simms 253
National Socialism and Prussianism 254
The National Socialist regime and Prussia 261
Prussia, Prussianism, resistance and the Allies 266
Suggestionsfirfurther reading . . . . . . . . .274
Further research possibilities 295
Index