The Politics of Harmony: Civil Service, Liberalism, and Social Reform in Baden, 1800-1850

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University of Delaware Press, 1980 - History - 271 pages
The first modern history in English of a German state other than Prussia or Austria between the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire and the unsuccessful 1848 revolutions, the Politics of Harmony also contributes to the discussion regarding the modernization of German society, especially the social bases of liberalism and parliamentary government.
 

Contents

The Foundation of a New State
17
From Administrative Reorganization to a Constitution
40
Civil Servants The Strategic Elite
60
Hard Times for Administrative Constitutionalism
85
The Zenith of Civil Servant Liberalism
133
The End of Oppositional Civil Servant Liberalism
179
The Transformation to Bureaucratic Constitutionalism
214
Appendix A
248
Appendix B
249
Bibliography
257
Index
267
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