This lecture was presented in the framework of the RECET Opening Week on 22.04.2021 at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) / University of Vienna, online via Zoom.

150th anniversary of German unification: Bismarck, Realpolitik, and Birth of a Nation With Columbia DC
Napoleon’s invasion smashed the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 and with it what was left of the early modern/medieval frame. Class strife in the wake