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Book SynopsisUsing new archival sources, this book shows that Prussia sought not the unity of Germany but its partition into five masses loosely enough joined to assure her control of the North. Hardenberg, not Metternich, supported the feudalistic claims of the estates suppressed by Napoleon and the resurrection of ancient estates' assemblies based mainly on c
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*Abbreviations used in Footnotes, pg. xv*Map, pg. 1*Chapter I. Paris in the spring, pg. 3*Chapter II. Peacemaking and the Future of Germany, pg. 18*Chapter III. Stalemate in London, pg. 53*Chapter IV. Dress Rehearsal in Baden, pg. 80*Chapter V. All Europe in My Anteroom, pg. 118*Chapter VI. From Forty-one Articles to Twelve, pg. 144*Chapter VII. The Road to Decision, pg. 174*Chapter VIII. The Front against Russia, pg. 205*Chapter IX. The Front Collapses, pg. 234*Chapter X. The Crisis over Saxony, pg. 264*Chapter XI. The German Question between Crises, pg. 299*Chapter XII. The Impact of the 100 Days, pg. 327*Chapter XIII. The Founding of the Bund, pg. 366*Appendix A. Hardenberg's Ten Articles of London, pg. 401*Appendix B. King Frederick's Precis of Conversation with Metternich, 30 September 1814, pg. 405*Bibliography, pg. 409*Index, pg. 431
