@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt1287rd9.11, ISBN = {9780802094193}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt1287rd9.11}, abstract = {In world history the 1860s was a decade of political renewal. It was dominated by reformist conservatives who sought to sidestep the revolutionary aspects of political modernization.¹ If we think initially of Bismarck in Prussia and Cavour in Italy, we are soon prompted to consider Napoleon III in France, Disraeli in England, Lincoln in America, John A. Macdonald in Canada, and the oligarchs behind the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Even in the calmer corners of central Europe – in the cantons of Switzerland,² in Vienna,³ in Württemberg⁴ – we find transitions to more democratic forms that involved the fundamental realignment of parliamentary}, bookauthor = {James Retallack}, booktitle = {The German Right, 1860?1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination}, pages = {168--191}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {Governmentality in Transition}, year = {2006} }