Wilhelminism and Its Legacies : : German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930 /

Wilhelminism and Its Legacies : : German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930 / / ed. by James Retallack, Geoff Eley.

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 "bourge...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Berghahn, Volker R.,
Eley, Geoff,
Fairbairn, Brett,
Ferguson, Niall,
Fischer, Conan,
Grant, Oliver,
Grimmer-Solem, Erik,
Hewitson, Mark,
Jefferies, Matthew,
Oermann, Nils Ole,
Orluc, Katiana,
Perras, Arne,
Probert, Paul,
Retallack, James,
Van’T Padje, Willem-Alexander,
HerausgeberIn:
Eley, Geoff,
Retallack, James,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 – Making a Place in the Nation Meanings of “Citizenship” in Wilhelmine Germany
  • 2 – Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism: Constructing Economic Democracy through Cooperation
  • 3 – “Few better farmers in Europe”? Productivity, Change, and Modernization in East-Elbian Agriculture 1870-1913
  • 4 – The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform: German Debates about Modern Nation-States
  • 5 – Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism?
  • 6 – Imperialist Socialism of the Chair: Gustav Schmoller and German Weltpolitik, 1897-1905
  • 7 – “Our natural ally” Anglo-German Relations and the Contradictory Agendas of Wilhelmine Socialism, 1897-1900
  • 8 – The “Malet Incident,” October 1895 A Prelude to the Kaiser’s “Krüger Telegram” in the Context of the Anglo-German Imperialist Rivalry
  • 9 – Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State: The Case of Carl Peters
  • 10 – The Law and the Colonial State: Legal Codification versus Practice in a German Colony
  • 11 – Max Warburg and German Politics: The Limits of Financial Power in Wilhelmine Germany
  • 12 – Continuity and Change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany: From the 1918 Revolution to the Ruhr Crisis
  • 13 – A Wilhelmine Legacy? Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-Europe and the Crisis of European Modernity, 1922-1932
  • 14 – Ideas into Politics: Meanings of “Stasis” in Wilhelmine Germany
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Publications by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
  • Index

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