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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797102303321

Autore

Retallack James N.

Titolo

Germany's Second Reich : Portraits and Pathways / / James Retallack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-2410-8

1-4426-2409-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

German and European Studies

Disciplina

943.08/3

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Germany

Germany History 1871-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Forging an empire: economy, society, culture, and politics, 1866-1890 -- British views of Germany, 1815-1914 -- Digital history anthologies on the Web -- King Johann of Saxony and the German Civil War of 1866 -- Julian Hawthorne's Saxon studies -- Bismark and Engels: The role of force in history -- Heydebrand and Westarp: leaving behind the Second Reich -- Get out the vote! Electioneering without democracy -- The authoritarian state and the political mass market -- Society and democracy in Germany: why Dahrendorf still matters -- Democracy in disappearing ink: suffrage robbery as coup d'etat.

Sommario/riassunto

Retallack reveals the complex and contradictory nature of the Second Reich, presenting Imperial Germany as it was seen by outsiders and insiders as well as by historians, political scientists, and sociologists ever since.