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The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815– 1871 The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Making of Germany, 1815– 1871 Bodie A. Ashton Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2017 © Bodie A. Ashton, 2017 Bodie A. Ashton has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978- 1- 3500- 0007- 0 ePDF : 978- 1- 3500- 0008- 7 ePub : 978- 1- 3500- 0009- 4 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Cover design: Adriana Brioso Cover image: A train crossing the Neckar river near Rosenstein Palace, Germany, c. 1840 (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) Typeset by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. To Ingrid and Albert, and for Kevin, Ric and Jutta. Contents List of Figures viii List of Maps ix Acknowledgements x Note on Translation xii List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1 States and the Nation in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 9 2 Independence and Early South German Particularism 33 3 Models of German Unification, 1815– 1848 49 4 The Years of Prophecy and Change, 1848– 1849 71 5 Counterrevolution, Reaction and Reappraisals, 1850– 1859 85 6 Six Years of Autumn, 1860– 1866 103 7 The Unification of Germany, 1866– 1871 125 8 Remembering and Forgetting Württemberg, 1871– 1914 147 Conclusion 155 Notes 161 Bibliography 189 Index 213 Figures 1 Friedrich, king of Württemberg 26 2 The Württemberg capital, Stuttgart 50 3 The university city of Tübingen, the traditional centre of Württemberg liberalism, in 1835 65 4 King Wilhelm 72 5 King Karl of Württemberg 148 Maps 1 The Kingdom of Württemberg and its post- 1815 borders xiv 2 The German confederal borders (1819) and the proposed national borders of ‘Greater Germany’ xv 3 The proposed national borders of ‘Lesser Germany’, excluding Austria xvi 4 The proposed national borders of ‘Third Germany’ (the ‘Beust plan’, 1861), excluding Prussia and Austria xvii 5 The ‘Federation of the United States of South Germany’ (1866), between the North German Confederation and Austria xviii
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