1. HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2014
Lecture Three: Burgertum and Liberalism

2. Conservatism as Reaction to French Revolution
Metternich’s Analysis

3. “Liberalism” as Modernism
The “Public Sphere”
Rule of Law and Bureaucratic Accountability
Removal of Old “Estates” Privileges
Emancipation of Jews
Economic Modernization

4. Liberalism and Capitalism
Burgertum, Mittelstand, Merchants, Bankers, and Industrialists
The Idea of Laissez-Faire
Prussia, the Zollverein, and Economic Development

5. Liberalism and Nationalism
German Nationalism and Napoleon
Nationalism as Threat to Aristocracy
Volk and/or Nation
Manifestations of Nationalist Liberalism
Burschenschaften
Turnvereine
Hambacher Fest

6. Liberalism and Democracy
Not the Same Thing
Traditions of Voting and Representation
Censorship

7. Romanticism Biedermeier – The Culture of the Mittelstand
Romanticism and the Arts – Goethe, Caspar David Friedrich, Felix Mendelssohn
Romanticism and the Common People – Brothers Grimm, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl