Contemporary American Opinion of the Mid-Century Revolutions in Central Europe

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Excerpt from Contemporary American Opinion of the Mid-Century Revolutions in Central Europe: A Thesis in History Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyOut of the Napoleonic Wars emerged a Germany which was merely a geographical expression, with kings and queens in abundance and with pawns without any voice in the affairs of state. But as the century hastened to its mid-point, unifying, liberal principles gained headway among the people Of central Europe. In 1847, democratic programmes vied with nationalistic creeds for the attention of the people. Prussia, in that year, had convoked a United Diet which had quarreled with the King and had been dissolved. Unsatisfied popular demands led directly to the mid-century upheaval in the Germanies, which needed only the revolution in Paris to start it Off.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.