The making of a German constitution : a slow revolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Crosby, Margaret Barber
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2008.
Subjects:	Constitutional history > Germany. Civil law > Germany > History. Civil law > Germany > Codification > History. Nationalism > Germany > History. Germany > Politics and government > 1848-1870. Germany > Politics and government > 1871-1933.
Online Access:	Publisher description Contributor biographical information Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Transforming the Reich : toward a new political history of modern Germany
Prelude to modern Germany : iurisdictio and the German idea of sovereignty
Toward a German nation : Friedrich Karl von Savigny and the growth of legal politics
Images of the Gemeinwesen : the Germanists and the growth of customary law constitutionalism
Undermining absolutism : the path of legalism and constituting the nation 1846-1879
A century of promise : Eheliches Güterrecht, women's wealth and independence in nineteenth-century Germany
Last bastion : the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and the transformation of German society
Discontent in the Bürgerliche society 1900-1933 : exclusion and popular resentment
Conclusion: The German idea of revolution : some final thoughts.