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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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003] ©2003 |
Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Language: | English |
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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