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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 943/.084
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism - Germany - History - 19th century; Imperialism - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Politics and government 1888-1918; Germany Social conditions 1871-1918; Germany Economic policy 1888-1918
• Persona (resp. second.): Pogge von StrandmannH; EleyGeoff <1949->; RetallackJames N.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Wilhelminism and its legacies
• ISBN: 0-85745-711-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822016903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II