The Path to Christian Democracy : : German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer / / Noel D. Cary.
From the time of Bismarck's great rival Ludwig Windthorst to that of the first post-World War II Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, the Catholic community in Germany took a distinctive historical path. Although it was by no means free of authoritarian components, it was at times the most democratic p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Another Sonderweg?
- PART I. The Center Party and Interdenominationalism in the Kaiserreich, 1870–1917
- 1. The Enemy of the State
- 2. Labor, Party, and Zentrumsstreit
- PART II. Initiatives and Inertia, 1917–1922
- 3. Defeat, Revolution, Reorientation
- 4. The Essen Program and Its Aftermath
- PART III. From Weimar to Hitler, 1923–1933
- 5. Political Mavericks and Catholic Consciousness
- 6. The Fall of the Tower
- PART IV. Reshaping Party Politics, 1945–1957
- 7. Catholics at the Zero Hour
- 8. The CDU of Konrad Adenauer
- 9. The CDU and Jakob Kaiser
- 10. The Center Party and Karl Spiecker
- 11. The Fusion Fiasco
- 12. Helene Wessel and the Christian Opposition
- Epilogue: The End of Weltanschauung?
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index