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Wilhelminism and its legacies : German modernities, imperialism, and the meanings of reform, 1890-1930 : essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann / edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Germany--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- Imperialism--History--19th century.
- Imperialism.
- Germany--Politics and government--1888-1918.
- Germany.
- Germany--Social conditions--1871-1918.
- Germany--Economic policy--1888-1918.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What was distinctive-and distinctively ""modern""-about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently ""bourgeois"" formation in German public culture, the contributors suggest new ways of interpreting its reformist potential and advance alternative readings of German political history before 1914. While proposing a more measured understanding of Wilhelmine Germany's extraordinarily dynamic society, they also grappl
- Contents:
- Wilhelminism and Its Legacies; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Making a Place in the Nation; Chapter 2. Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism; Chapter 3. "Few better farmers in Europe"?; Appendix A; Appendix B; Chapter 4. The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform; Chapter 5. Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism?; Chapter 6. Imperialist Socialism of the Chair; Chapter 7. "Our natural ally"; Chapter 8. The "Malet Incident," October 1895; Chapter 9. Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State
- Chapter 10. The Law and the Colonial StateChapter 11. Max Warburg and German Politics; Chapter 12. Continuity and Change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany; Chapter 13. A Wilhelmine Legacy?; Chapter 14. Ideas into Politics; Notes on Contributors; Publications by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 25, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780857457110
- 085745711X
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