Making Prussians, Raising Germans

An investigation into why the creation of nation-states coincided with bouts of civil war in the nineteenth-century Western world.

Jasper Heinzen is a lecturer in modern European history at the University of York, having taught before at the Universität Bern, Switzerland. He has published on the Second German Empire, European international relations and the place of the Napoleonic Wars in European collective memory, and is currently writing a book about the use of honour codes as a transnational medium of communication among prisoners of war in the nineteenth century. His work has been awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation on Lower Saxon History by the Historical Commission of Lower Saxony and Bremen, and the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize, and his research has been funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and a Marie Curie Fellowship.