Jasper Heinzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5441439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jasper Heinzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jasper |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinzen |
| SIGNATURE | HEINZEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6790-3787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
State-Building, Conquest, and Royal Sovereignty in Prussia, 1815–1871
Since Bodin, scholars have been debating whether sovereignty is indivisible or rather decentred, multiple, and shared. This article adds to practice-oriented conceptualizations of sovereignty, which acknowledge the existence of jurisdictional pluralism in nineteenth-century state-building. Borrowing from imperial history, it contrasts the nominal supremacy of the Prussian crown – as embodied by the monarchical principle – with the residual sovere…
Hartwin Spenkuch, Preußen – eine besondere Geschichte. Staat, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur 1648–1947. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2019
Nils Freytag, Das Wilhelminische Kaiserreich 1890–1914. Paderborn, Schöningh 2018
Beyond the Barricades
It is fair to say that Prussia has an image problem. After the Second World War it became fashionable to argue that the Junkers and the authoritarian heritage of the Hohenzollern monarchy had set up German democracy to fail. Even before the Nazi dictatorship, a plethora of critics, ranging from Social Democrats and the Catholic Church to British propaganda in the First World War, saw in Prussia the spiritual home of ‘militarism’. However, thanks …
Making democracy safe for tribal homelands? Self-determination and political regionalism in Weimar Germany
This article adds to the literature on political regionalism in the Weimar Republic at the end of the First World War. After four years of hardship at the hands of the central government, proponents of reform were prepared to countenance the dismemberment of Prussia – Germany’s largest state – in favour of autonomous tribal (stammlich) entities under the federal umbrella of the Reich. However, contemporaries soon learned that instead of acting as…
Mark Hewitson. Absolute War
With Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792–1820 and The People’s Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820–1888, Mark Hewitson has produced two ambitious volumes. They form the first installments of a planned trilogy that will challenge the way historians have interpreted German attitudes to war since the late eighteenth century. Neither the rise of nationalism during the Napoleonic Wars nor continuities wi…
Making Prussians, Raising Germans
Reframing the German War of 1866 as a civil war, Making Prussians, Raising Germans offers a new understanding of critical aspects of Prussian state-building and German nation-building in the nineteenth century, and investigates the long-term ramifications of civil war in emerging nations. Drawing transnational comparisons with Switzerland, Italy and the United States, it asks why compatriots were driven to take up arms against each other and what…
Making Prussians, Raising Germans
Monarchical State-building through State Destruction
The German War of 1866 was a turning point in the consolidation of Prussian hegemony over the emerging German nation-state. This article engages with a neglected aspect of this process by investigating the destabilizing effect of Prussia’s territorial expansion at the expense of fellow monarchies in Hanover, Hessen-Kassel, Nassau and Schleswig-Holstein. It argues that the hostile response of ruling houses related to the deposed dynasties and the …
The Hanoverian Succession
The historiography of the Anglo-Hanoverian Personal Union has experienced a remarkable sea change in recent years. Long considered at best a quirk of eighteenth-century dynastic politics and at worst a nuisance that committed Britain to the defence of Hanover when her true interests lay overseas, the Hanoverian succession to the English throne (1714–1837) now appears in a more colourful light. Newer scholarship emphasises not only the multifacete…
Bismarck
Journal Article Bismarck: A Life Get access Bismarck: A Life. By Jonathan Steinberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011. viii + 577 pp. £25 (hardback). Jasper Heinzen Jasper Heinzen University of Bern [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 296–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghr106 Published: 14 November 2011
Transnational Affinities and Invented Traditions
THE NAPOLEONic WARS iN BRiTiSH clear: despite having been won by coalitions, a substantial and fairly fresh body of publications concentrates on the two battles' emblematic function in German and British national mythology respectively. 10 in stark contrast, diplomatic historians have long accepted the centripetal quality of Allied coalition-building in 1813-15, which, in the words of Paul W. Schroeder, constituted nothing less than the turning p…
Nursing the Fatherland? Hohenzollern State Building and the Hidden Transcript of Political Resistance in Hanoverian Female Charity during the Second German Empire
In summer 1866 the Austro-Prussian struggle for supremacy in Germany erupted into open conflict. King Georg V of Hanover sided with other governments loyal to the German Confederation against Prussia, but after initially defeating Prussian forces at Langensalza, he was forced to capitulate. Two days after the battle, on June 29, 1866, the widow of the Hanoverian general Sir Georg Julius von Hartmann told her daughter in no uncertain terms how she…
Japanese gardens and plants in New Zealand, 1850-1950
Oscar Wilde once wrote that ‘the whole of Japan is a pure invention’.1 This comment hints at the complex processes behind cultural transfer and transculturation between different areas of Asia and the West from the 1850s onwards.2 The development of gardening aesthetics in New Zealand from the mid-Victorian to Edwardian periods showcases just how inventive, complex and sometimes contradictory Western society’s cultural engagement with the rising …
The Guelph ‘Conspiracy’
(2007). The Guelph ‘Conspiracy’: Hanover as Would-Be Intermediary in the European System, 1866–1870. The International History Review: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 258-281
Monarchical State-building through State Destruction
The German War of 1866 was a turning point in the consolidation of Prussian hegemony over the emerging German nation-state. This article engages with a neglected aspect of this process by investigating the destabilizing effect of Prussia’s territorial expansion at the expense of fellow monarchies in Hanover, Hessen-Kassel, Nassau and Schleswig-Holstein. It argues that the hostile response of ruling houses related to the deposed dynasties and the …
The Guelph ‘Conspiracy’
(2007). The Guelph ‘Conspiracy’: Hanover as Would-Be Intermediary in the European System, 1866–1870. The International History Review: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 258-281
Japanese gardens and plants in New Zealand, 1850-1950
Oscar Wilde once wrote that ‘the whole of Japan is a pure invention’.1 This comment hints at the complex processes behind cultural transfer and transculturation between different areas of Asia and the West from the 1850s onwards.2 The development of gardening aesthetics in New Zealand from the mid-Victorian to Edwardian periods showcases just how inventive, complex and sometimes contradictory Western society’s cultural engagement with the rising …
Nursing the Fatherland? Hohenzollern State Building and the Hidden Transcript of Political Resistance in Hanoverian Female Charity during the Second German Empire
In summer 1866 the Austro-Prussian struggle for supremacy in Germany erupted into open conflict. King Georg V of Hanover sided with other governments loyal to the German Confederation against Prussia, but after initially defeating Prussian forces at Langensalza, he was forced to capitulate. Two days after the battle, on June 29, 1866, the widow of the Hanoverian general Sir Georg Julius von Hartmann told her daughter in no uncertain terms how she…
Bismarck
Journal Article Bismarck: A Life Get access Bismarck: A Life. By Jonathan Steinberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011. viii + 577 pp. £25 (hardback). Jasper Heinzen Jasper Heinzen University of Bern [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 30, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 296–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghr106 Published: 14 November 2011
Transnational Affinities and Invented Traditions
THE NAPOLEONic WARS iN BRiTiSH clear: despite having been won by coalitions, a substantial and fairly fresh body of publications concentrates on the two battles' emblematic function in German and British national mythology respectively. 10 in stark contrast, diplomatic historians have long accepted the centripetal quality of Allied coalition-building in 1813-15, which, in the words of Paul W. Schroeder, constituted nothing less than the turning p…
Making Prussians, Raising Germans
Reframing the German War of 1866 as a civil war, Making Prussians, Raising Germans offers a new understanding of critical aspects of Prussian state-building and German nation-building in the nineteenth century, and investigates the long-term ramifications of civil war in emerging nations. Drawing transnational comparisons with Switzerland, Italy and the United States, it asks why compatriots were driven to take up arms against each other and what…
Making Prussians, Raising Germans
Monarchical State-building through State Destruction
The German War of 1866 was a turning point in the consolidation of Prussian hegemony over the emerging German nation-state. This article engages with a neglected aspect of this process by investigating the destabilizing effect of Prussia’s territorial expansion at the expense of fellow monarchies in Hanover, Hessen-Kassel, Nassau and Schleswig-Holstein. It argues that the hostile response of ruling houses related to the deposed dynasties and the …
The Hanoverian Succession
The historiography of the Anglo-Hanoverian Personal Union has experienced a remarkable sea change in recent years. Long considered at best a quirk of eighteenth-century dynastic politics and at worst a nuisance that committed Britain to the defence of Hanover when her true interests lay overseas, the Hanoverian succession to the English throne (1714–1837) now appears in a more colourful light. Newer scholarship emphasises not only the multifacete…
Making democracy safe for tribal homelands? Self-determination and political regionalism in Weimar Germany
This article adds to the literature on political regionalism in the Weimar Republic at the end of the First World War. After four years of hardship at the hands of the central government, proponents of reform were prepared to countenance the dismemberment of Prussia – Germany’s largest state – in favour of autonomous tribal (stammlich) entities under the federal umbrella of the Reich. However, contemporaries soon learned that instead of acting as…
Mark Hewitson. Absolute War
With Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792–1820 and The People’s Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820–1888, Mark Hewitson has produced two ambitious volumes. They form the first installments of a planned trilogy that will challenge the way historians have interpreted German attitudes to war since the late eighteenth century. Neither the rise of nationalism during the Napoleonic Wars nor continuities wi…
Hartwin Spenkuch, Preußen – eine besondere Geschichte. Staat, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur 1648–1947. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2019
Nils Freytag, Das Wilhelminische Kaiserreich 1890–1914. Paderborn, Schöningh 2018
Beyond the Barricades
It is fair to say that Prussia has an image problem. After the Second World War it became fashionable to argue that the Junkers and the authoritarian heritage of the Hohenzollern monarchy had set up German democracy to fail. Even before the Nazi dictatorship, a plethora of critics, ranging from Social Democrats and the Catholic Church to British propaganda in the First World War, saw in Prussia the spiritual home of ‘militarism’. However, thanks …
State-Building, Conquest, and Royal Sovereignty in Prussia, 1815–1871
Since Bodin, scholars have been debating whether sovereignty is indivisible or rather decentred, multiple, and shared. This article adds to practice-oriented conceptualizations of sovereignty, which acknowledge the existence of jurisdictional pluralism in nineteenth-century state-building. Borrowing from imperial history, it contrasts the nominal supremacy of the Prussian crown – as embodied by the monarchical principle – with the residual sovere…
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