• ISBN13: 9780521818681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: May 16, 2003
• Pages: 624
• Original Price: GBP 64.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 862 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / General

About the Book This volume publishes official reports written for the Foreign Office by British envoys to the German States in the nineteenth century. It covers the period from the Vienna Congress in 1815 to the dissolution of the German Confederation. All despatches are transcribed and annotated for the first time. The following missions are included: Frankfurt (Diet of the German Confederation), Berlin (Prussia), Munich (Bavaria), Stuttgart (WUrttemberg), Dresden (Saxony), Vienna (Austria) and Hanover from 1837. The selection presents attitudes to the political, economic, military, cultural, and social situation in the German States.

Freitag, Sabine: - Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. Her latest publications include Mord und andere Kleinigkeiten. Ungewöhnliche Kriminalfälle aus sechs Jahrhunderten (2001) and the forthcoming 'Refugees of Revolution. Political Exiles in Mid-Victorian London' (2002).

Mösslang, Markus: - Research Fellow of the German Historical Institute in London. He is author of Flüchtlingslehrer und Flüchtlingshochschullehrer. Eine Studie zur Integration der Flüchtlinge und Vertriebenen im bayerischen Bildungswesen 1945-1961 (2002).

Wende, Peter: - Director of the German Historical Institute in London until 2000. He has written on 19th century German and English history.