Mitteleuropa

I. Fiction and Fact: An Introduction.- II. Mid-European Aspects of German Nationalism, 1815-1871.- Precursors of Mitteleuropa.- The Contest for German Unity in its Mid-European Setting.- The Eclipse of the Grossdeutsch Movement.- III. The Slender Threads.- The Mitteleuropa of Lagarde.- The Hapsburg Dilemma.- The Austrian-Germans Between Sadowa and Sarajevo.- Reich-German Reactions to the Austrian-German Dilemma.- IV. Germany and Middle Europe: The Economic Pattern, 1871-1914.- Unfulfilled Dreams of Mid-European Economic Integration.- The Pattern of German Investment.- The Expansion of German World Trade.- Waterways and Rails in Middle Europe, and the Movement of German Trade.- V. Mitteleuropa in the Age of William II.- The Wilhelmian Scene.- Naumann's Pre-war Emphases.- Pre-war Enthusiasm for the Near East: Paul Rohrbach and Ernst Jäckh.- Pre-war Objectives of German Diplomacy.- Mid-European Themes in the Wilhelmian Era.- VI. The Impact of Blockade.- Pre-war Intimations of Siege.- Initial Reactions to Blockade.- The Siege and the Powers.- The War Aims of the Central Powers.- VII. Mitteleuropa Emerges.- The First Evidences.- How Mitteleuropa Grew.- The Rising Flood.- The Economic Argument.- The Economic Interests.- Cross-Currents and Quandary.- VIII. The Austro-Hungarian Dilemma 174 Austrian-German Plans to Reorganize the Monarchy.- Austro-Hungarian Resistance to Mitteleuropa.- Stalemate and Perplexity.- IX. Friedrich Naumann's Mitteleuropa.- Naumann's Argument.- Reactions at Home and Abroad.- Naumann, the Entente, and the German Government.- X. 1916. The Year of Culmination.- The Greater Mid-European Illusion.- The Peak of Mitteleuropa Enthusiasm.- The Pan-Germans vs. Mitteleuropa.- Weltwirtschaft Opposes Mitteleuropa.- Mitteleuropa Refortified.- Geographyand History Adjust to Mitteleuropa.- XI. Mitteleuropa in Eclipse.- Intimations of a Totalitarian Future: The Ludendorff Dictatorship.- The German 'Discovery' of Russia.- Osteuropa Overshadows Mitteleuropa.- The