Imperial Germany and a world without war : the peace movement and German society, 1892-1914 / Roger Chickering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chickering, Roger, 1942- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace movements--Germany--History.

Peace movements.

Germany--History--1871-1918.

Germany.

Germany--Politics and government--1871-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (503 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1975.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides the first thorough examination of the peace movement in pre-World War I Germany, concentrating on the factors in German politics and society that account for the movement's weakness. The author draws on a wide range of documents to survey the history, organization, and ideologies of the peace groups, placing them in their social and political context.Working through schools, churches, the press, political parties, and other opinion-forming groups, the German peace movement attempted systematically to promote the idea that the world's nations composed a harmonious community in which law was the proper means for resolving disputes. Except for small pockets of support, however, the movement met only resistance-resistance greater, the author contends, than elsewhere in the West. Evaluating the reasons for hostility to the peace movement in Germany, he concludes that dominant features of German political culture emphasized the inevitability of international conflict, in the final analysis because Imperial Germany's ruling elites feared the domestic as well as the international implications of the movement's program.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Introduction: The Peace Movement, Pacifism, and Political Culture

2. The German Peace Society

3. The Ideology of German Pacifism

4. The Expansion of the German Peace Movement

5. The Peace Movement and the Political Education of German Society

6. The Peace Movement and German Politics

7. The German Peace Movement and International Politics

8. Excursus: The Peace Movement in France

9. The Peace Movement in Imperial Germany: The Nature of the Opposition

Bibliography

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691644653

0691644659

9780691100364

0691100365

9780691617534

0691617538

9781400867738

1400867738

OCLC:

933516092