From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the 'second city of the empire'. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, 'inconvenient' this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dimension deserves more prevalence in both academic and popular representations of Liverpool's past. Indeed, if Liverpool does represent the 'World in One City' - the slogan for Liverpool's status as European Capital of Culture in 2008 - it could be argued that this is largely down to Merseyside's long-term interactions with the colonial world, and the legacies of that imperial history. In the context of Capital of Culture year and growing interest in the relationship between British provincial cities and the British empire, this book will find a wide audience amongst academics, students and history enthusiasts generally.

In 1848 the continent of Europe was rocked by revolutions: only Great Britain and Russia remained relatively immune to the upheaval. Most spectacularly, the Revolutions swept across the German-speaking lands of central Europe, with the newly-released forces of nationalism and mass popular protest smashing the reactionary Metternich regimes which had held sway since the defeat of Napoleon. The Metternich system was dead: nationalism and national self-determination asserted themselves as the dominant dynamic forces of continental Europe in the later nineteenth century. This impressive history examines the political and social implications of the 1848 Revolutions for the future destiny and shape of Europe as a whole, and explores the wider forces at play in the German lands of nineteenth-century Europe.

Dieser Sammelband zu Gottfried Keller würdigt den 150. Jahrestag der Publikation des ersten Bandes der Leute von Seldwyla und berücksichtigt die neue historisch-kritische Ausgabe von Kellers Werken, herausgegeben unter der Leitung von Walter Morgenthaler (2000). Der Band enthält zwölf Beiträge von elf Autoren, die den Novellenzyklus von verschiedenen Seiten aus betrachten. Schwerpunkte dieser interdisziplinären Studie sind die philosophische Position Kellers, seine Ansichten zur Schweizer Ökonomie, zur Pädagogik und zu politischen Tagesfragen der Zeit. Etwa die Hälfte der Beiträge behandelt einzelne Novellen (Kleider machen Leute, Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe, Das verlorene Lachen, die beiden Vorreden), während weitere Aufsätze Kellers Realismus und seiner Erzähltechnik gewidmet sind. This book will take note of the 150th anniversary of part one of Keller's Seldwyla stories using the new critical edition of Die Leute von Seldwyla, published in 2000 by Walter Morgenthaler. Though intended for scholars of German literature, the study, containing twelve contributions by eleven authors, is interdisciplinary in nature and discusses the impact of German philosophy (Feuerbach, Vischer) on Keller's work as well as Keller's interest in economics, education and Swiss political life. About half the contributions focus on individual stories, in particular Kleider machen Leute, Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe and Das verlorene Lachen, while the remainder either comment on Keller's two prefaces to the Novellen or deal with overarching aspects such as Keller's realism and his narrative technique.