Exploring the rise of Prussia between 1700 and 1830, this text goes beyond the concerns of the Prussian elite and explains it in relation to Prussian society as a whole. Political analysis is integrated with material on such areas as agrarian society, urban life and religion.
The second of a two-volume sequence on the history of Prussia in modern times, this collection covers the unification of Germany around the state of Prussia, Prussia's fortunes in the imperial period (1870-1918), and Prussia under the Third Reich.