The second of a two-volume sequence on the history of Prussia in modern times, this collection covers the unification of Germany around the state of Prussia, Prussia's fortunes in the imperial period (1870-1918), and Prussia under the Third Reich.

Introduction: Modern Prussia - continuity and change; Prussia in history and historiography from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries; Conservatives and the Monarchy; Restoration Prussia, 1786-1848; Revolution and counter-revolution in Prussia, 1840-50; The changing concerns of Prussian conservatism, 1830-1914; The urban and rural environments; The Prussian Zollverein and the bid for economic superiority; The Prussian labour movement, 1871-1914; Agrarian transformation and right radicalism: Economics and politics in rural Prussia, 1830-1947; Religion in State and Society; Religious conflicts and German national identity in Prussia, 1866-1914; Prussian Protestantism; Prussia, The State and Prussianism; Democratic Prussia in Weimar Germany, 1919-33; Prussia's military legacy in Empire, Republic and Reich, 1871-1945; Prussia, Prussianism and National Socialism, 1933-47