Preface; Introduction Larry Eugene Jones and James Retallack; Part I.
Electoral Politics in an Authoritarian Regime: 1. Interpreting Wilhelmine
elections: national issues, fairness issues, and electoral mobilization
Brett Fairbairn; 2. Antisocialism and electoral politics in regional
perspective: the kingdom of Saxony James Retallack; 3. The liberal power
monopoly in the cities of imperial Germany Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann; 4.
Reichstag elections in the Kaiserreich: the prospects for electoral
research in the interdisciplinary context Peter Steinbach; Part II. Gender,
Identity, and Political Participation: 5. Women, gender, and the limits of
political history in the age of 'mass' politics Eve Rosenhaft; 6. Gender
and the culture of work: ideology and identity in the world behind the mill
gate, 1890-1914 Kathleen Canning; 7. Serving the Volk, saving the nation:
women in the youth movement and the public sphere in Weimar Germany
Elizabeth Harvey; 8. Modernization, emancipation, mobilization: Nazi
society reconsidered Jill Stephenson; Part III. Local Dimensions of
Political Culture: 9. Democracy or reaction? The political implications of
localist ideas in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany Celia Applegate; 10.
Communist music in the streets: politics and perceptions in Berlin at the
end of the Weimar Republic Richard Bodek; 11. Weimar populism and National
Socialism in local perspective Peter Fritzsche; 12. Political mobilization
and associational life: some thoughts on the National Socialist German
Workers' Club Roger Chickering; Part IV. The National Perspective:
Continuities and Discontinuities: 13. 1918 and all that: reassessing the
periodization of recent German history Stuart T. Robson; 14. Generational
conflict and the problem of political mobilization in the Weimar Republic
Larry Eugene Jones; 15. The social bases of political cleavages in the
Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 Jürgen W. Falter; 16. The formation and
dissolution of a German national electorate: from Kaiserreich to Third
Reich Richard Bessel; Index.
