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In the decades between the French Revolution and the first stirrings of liberalism in the 1830s, German political culture defined itself apart from that of its neighbors to the west. Focusing on the career of Johann Cotta, the preeminent publisher of his generation, this book offers a lens through which we can more fully view and understand these turbulent years. Cotta is a familiar figure in the history of German letters, but his public life has never been studied comprehensively. He financed and directed the Allgemeine Zeitung of Augsburg, which would become one of the great European newspapers of the nineteenth century. He was the first German to convert money and cultural prestige into political power by means of the press. Cotta and his colleagues emerge not as liberals, but as characteristic figures of the Reform era. Their aim was to define and institutionalize a realm of thought and action beyond the control of the state, but short of opposed to it--a \"public\" realm in which intellectual independence and political loyalty would be equally well served. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire. The stakes for both the winners and losers of the intensifying world market played a major role in dividing German society into camps with conflicting socio-economic priorities. As foreign trade policy moved into the center stage of political debates, the German government found it increasingly difficult to pursue a successful policy that avoided harming German exports and consumer interests while also seeking to placate a growing protectionist movement.

Zivil- und Militärkabinett, Gründungen des 18. Jahrhunderts, waren Instrumente königlicher Selbstregierung. Die Kabinettschefs, adelige Offiziere und adelige Laufbahnbeamte, bildeten als Vertrauensleute der Monarchen deren Pufferinstanz gegenüber der wachsenden Staatsverwaltung und eigenwilligen Ministern. Kabinettschefs waren bei der Personalauswahl und zuweilen in Entscheidungssituationen bedeutsam. Als mit der Verfassung ab 1848 Parlamente eine Rolle spielten, standen Kabinette in der Kritik, aber Preußens Könige hielten an ihrem monarchischen Regierungsapparat bis 1918 fest. Kabinette funktionierten wie Staatsbehörden und kooperierten mit den Regierungsspitzen, behielten als Büros des Monarchen aber weiter ihren Sonderstatus. Extrakonstitutionell agierte besonders das Militärkabinett, das Wilhelm I. ab 1861 stärkte, um eine vom Parlamentseinfluss freie Kommandozentrale zu besitzen. Analog etablierte Wilhelm II. 1889 das Marinekabinett. Der Band zeigt all dies in 320 Dokumenten.

In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the German economy with an emerging global economy before the First World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire. The stakes for both the winners and losers of the intensifying world market