Mark Hewitson Knihy

Re-assesses Germany's relationship with the wider world before 1914 by examining the connections between nationalism, transnationalism, imperialism and globalization.

The book delves into the dynamics of politics and national identity in Germany during a pivotal era of unification. It examines how the national question was expressed in the public sphere, highlighting the roles of the press, influential political writers, and significant political organizations. Through this analysis, the author seeks to uncover the timing, methods, and motivations behind the unification process, offering a nuanced understanding of this transformative period in German history.

Absolute War' reassesses the meaning of military conflict for the millions of German subjects who were directly implicated in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Based on a re-reading of contemporary diaries, letters, memoirs, official correspondence, press reports, pamphlets, treatises, plays, and cartoons, this volume refocuses attention on combat and conscription as the central components of new forms of mass warfare. It concentrates, in particular, on the impact of violence, killing, and death on many soldiers' and some civilians' experiences and subsequent memories of conflict. War has often been conceived of as 'an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds', as Clausewitz put it, but the relationship between military conflicts and violent acts remains a problematic one.00

The second of three volumes from Mark Hewitson which explore the experiences of conflict in modern Germany, and the resounding impact of these across Europe and the world, The People's War takes a new look at the 'wars of unification' and charts the rise of nationalism and the breakdown of the existing state system in the 1850s and 1860s.

This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. By analyzing Wilhelmine depictions of the French Third Republic, Dr Hewitson revises accepted interpretations of German politics and nationalism.