Wilhelminism and Its Legacies (eBook, ePUB)

German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930
Redaktion: Eley, Geoff; Retallack, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 "bourgeois" formation in German public culture, the contributors suggest new ways of interpreting its reformist potential and advance alternative readings of German political history before 1914. While proposing a more measured understanding of Wilhelmine Germany's extraordinarily dynamic society, they also grapple with the ambivalent, cross-cutting nature of German "modernities" and reassess their impact on long-term developments running through the Wilhelmine age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857457110
• Artikelnr.: 39604701

Autorenporträt

Geoff Eley is the Sylvia L. Thrupp Collegiate Professor of Comparative History and has taught at the University of Michigan since 1979. His primary appointment is in History, with a cross appointment in German Studies and an additional affiliation with Film and Video Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Volker R. Berghahn
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Geoff Eley and James Retallack
Chapter 1. Making a Place in the Nation: Meanings of "Citizenship" in
Wilhelmine Germany
Geoff Eley
Chapter 2. Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism: Constructing
Economic Democracy through Cooperation
Brett Fairbairn
Chapter 3. "Few better farmers in Europe"? Productivity, Change, and
Modernization in East-Elbian Agriculture, 1870-1913
Oliver Grant
Chapter 4. The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform: German Debates
about Modern Nation-States
Mark Hewitson
Chapter 5. Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism
Matthew Jefferies
Chapter 6. Imperial Socialism of the Chair: Gustav Schmoller and German
Weltpolitik, 1897-1905
Erik Grimmer-Solem
Chapter 7. "Our natural ally": German Social Democrats, Anglo-German
Relations, and the Contradictory Agendas of Wilhelmine Socialism, 1897-1900
Paul Probert
Chapter 8. The "Malet Incident," October 1895: A Prelude to the Kaiser's
"Krüger Telegram" in the Context of the Anglo-German Imperialist Rivalry
Willem-Alexander van't Padje
Chapter 9. Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State: The Case of Carl
Peters
Arne Perras
Chapter 10. The Law and the Colonial State: Legal Codification versus
Practice in a German Colony
Nils Ole Oermann
Chapter 11. Max Warburg and German Politics: The Limits of Financial Power
in Wilhelmine Germany
Niall Ferguson
Chapter 12. Continuity and Change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany: From the 1918
Revolution to the Ruhr Crisis
Conan Fischer
Chapter 13. A Wilhelmine Legacy? Coudenhove-Kalergi's "Paneuropa" as an
Alternative Path towards a European (Post-)Modernity, 1922-1932
Katiana Orluc
Chapter 14. Ideas into Politics: Meanings of "Stasis" in Wilhelmine Germany
James Retallack
Notes on Contributors
List of Publications by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann