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The 47 pages that link to German unification, each with the reason it gives.

• NationalismBroader topic: It demonstrates how nationalism and state power combined to consolidate a nation-state.

• Ethnic nationalismBroader topic: German unification illustrates how shared language and historical identity could support state formation.

• Romantic nationalismBroader topic: Cultural ideas of German nationhood predated and helped shape the later drive for political unity.

• Nation-stateBroader topic: It offers a prominent case of political consolidation framed around national identity.

• German nationalismBroader topic: It achieved state unity while narrowing the liberal and popular ambitions of earlier nationalists.

• Concert of EuropeBroader topic: Unification transformed the European balance the Concert had sought to preserve.

• GermanyBroader topic: It established the first German Empire, a predecessor of today’s republic.

• RealpolitikBroader topic: Bismarck's management of wars and alliances made unification a lasting case of power-centered politics.

• Greater GermanyBroader topic: The empire realized a Prussian-led, Austria-excluding settlement rather than Greater Germany.

• Long nineteenth centuryBroader topic: It altered the European balance of power before 1914.

• History of GermanyBroader topic: It created the German Empire, the first modern German nation-state.

• 19th centuryBroader topic: It altered the European balance of power near the century’s end.

• KleinstaatereiBroader topic: It ended the era of numerous German sovereign states within a unified nation-state.

• National liberalismBroader topic: German unification tested whether national sovereignty could be achieved through liberal politics or authoritarian state-building.

• Rise of nationalism in EuropeBroader topic: Prussia achieved unity through state power and wars rather than a successful liberal revolution.