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HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013. Lecture One: Germany Around 1815. Beginning Frameworks. A “Once Upon a Time” Story Germany and the Rest of Europe before the French Revolution The Holy Roman Empire and its End Kleinstaaterei Prussia and Austria Napoleon. New Beginnings.
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HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013 Lecture One: Germany Around 1815
Beginning Frameworks • A “Once Upon a Time” Story • Germany and the Rest of Europe before the French Revolution • The Holy Roman Empire and its End • Kleinstaaterei • Prussia and Austria • Napoleon
New Beginnings • The Prussian Reform Movement • Metternich • The Congress of Vienna • Germanic Confederation
Continuities and Conservatism • Metternich and the Holy Alliance • Prussia, Austria, and the Rest of Germany • An Aristocratic Age
Sonderweg • What does “Sonderweg” mean? • Why has it become an important concept for German history?
Some names/concepts I may mention that are hard to spell Prussian General Code 1794 Karl vom Stein Carl von Clausewitz Karl August von Hardenberg Wilhelm von Humboldt Gerhard von Scharnhorst Neidthardt von Gneisenau