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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822016903321

Titolo

Wilhelminism and its legacies : German modernities, imperialism, and the meanings of reform, 1890-1930 : essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann / / edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-85745-711-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

943/.084

Soggetti

Nationalism - Germany - History - 19th century

Imperialism - History - 19th century

Germany Politics and government 1888-1918

Germany Social conditions 1871-1918

Germany Economic policy 1888-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Wilhelminism and Its Legacies; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Making a Place in the Nation; Chapter 2. Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism; Chapter 3. "Few better farmers in Europe"?; Appendix A; Appendix B; Chapter 4. The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform; Chapter 5. Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism?; Chapter 6. Imperialist Socialism of the Chair; Chapter 7. "Our natural ally"; Chapter 8. The "Malet Incident," October 1895; Chapter 9. Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State

Chapter 10. The Law and the Colonial StateChapter 11. Max Warburg and German Politics; Chapter 12. Continuity and Change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany; Chapter 13. A Wilhelmine Legacy?; Chapter 14. Ideas into Politics; Notes on Contributors; Publications by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 grappl