Modern Prussian History: 1830-1947

Philip Dwyer is Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is also the author of The Rise of Prussia, 1700-1830.

• Introduction: Modern Prussia — continuity and change; Prussia in history and historiography from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries; Conservatives and the Monarchy; Restoration Prussia, 1786–1848; Revolution and counter-revolution in Prussia, 1840–50; The changing concerns of Prussian conservatism, 1830–1914; The urban and rural environments; The Prussian Zollverein and the bid for economic superiority; The Prussian labour movement, 1871–1914; Agrarian transformation and right radicalism: Economics and politics in rural Prussia, 1830–1947; Religion in State and Society; Religious conflicts and German national identity in Prussia, 1866–1914; Prussian Protestantism; Prussia, The State and Prussianism; Democratic Prussia in Weimar Germany, 1919–33; Prussia’s military legacy in Empire, Republic and Reich, 1871–1945; Prussia, Prussianism and National Socialism, 1933–47