The Political Fragmentation of Germany Formation of German states by Infrastructures, Maps, and Movement, 1815-1866 /

• Main Author: Segal, Zef M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe, Central-History.; World politics.; Civilization-History.; Emigration and immigration.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; Political History.; Cultural History.; Migration.

This book analyses the development of German territorial states in the nineteenth century through the prism of five Mittelstaaten: Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Württemberg, and Baden. It asks how a state becomes a place, and argues that it involves a contested and multi-faceted process, one of slow an...