Late Modern European -- German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914 by Helmut Walser Smith

Ross, Ronald J., The Catholic Historical Review

German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914. By Helmut Walser Smith. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1995. Pp. xiii, 271.)

The Reformation of the sixteenth century and the ensuing religious wars created not a Protestant Germany but a deeply divided German Reich. Even with national unification after 1870-1871 Germany's confessional division meant that a profound religious rift ran straight through the empire. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, Helmut Walser Smith explores the cultural, social, and political history of this rift to assess the influence of religious division on nation-building and nationalism and to answer the …

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Publication information: Article title: Late Modern European -- German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914 by Helmut Walser Smith. Contributors: Ross, Ronald J. - Author. Journal title: The Catholic Historical Review. Volume: 82. Issue: 2 Publication date: April 1996. Page number: 270+. © 2003 The Catholic University of America Press. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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