Imperial Germany revisited : continuing debates and new perspectives / edited by Sven Oliver Müller and Cornelius Torp.

Other author Müller, Sven Oliver, 1968-
Other author Torp, Cornelius.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Descriptionvii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Imperialism--History.
Politics and culture--Germany. --History.
Social change--Germany. --History.
Violence--Colonies. --Germany. --History.
Germany--History. --1871-1918.
Germany--History. --1871-1918. --Historiography.
Germany--Colonies. --History.
Germany--Foreign relations. --1871-1918.

Contents Pt.I The place of Imperial Germany in German history : When the Sonderweg debate left us / Helmut Walser Smith -- The impossible vanishing point : societal differentiation in Imperial Germany / Benjamin Ziemann -- Was the German empire a sovereign state? / Dieter Grimm -- Theories of nationalism and the critical approach to German history / John Breuilly -- Pt.II Politics, culture, and society : The authoritarian state and the political mass market / James Retallack -- Using violence to govern : the German empire and the French Third Republic / Heinz-Gerhard Haupt -- Women's suffrage and antifeminism as a Litmus Test of modernizing societies : a Western European comparison / Ute Planert -- Germany in the age of culture wars / Olaf Blaschke -- Their favorite enemy : German social historians and the Prussian nobility / Stephan Malinowski -- A difficult relationship : social history and the Bourgeoisie / Manfred Hettling -- Cultural nationalism and beyond : musical performances in Imperial Germany / Sven Oliver Müller -- Pt.III War and violence : 1914-1945 : a second Thirty Years War? Advantages and disadvantages of an interpretive category / Jörg Echternkamp -- The enduring charm of the Great War : some reflections on methodological issues / Roger Chickering -- The First World War and military culture : continuity and change in Germany and Italy / MacGregor Knox -- A German way of war? Narratives of German militarism and maritime warfare in World War I / Dirk Bönker -- German war crimes 1914 and 1941 : the question of continuity / Alan Kramer -- Pt.IV The German empire in the world : From the periphery to the center : on the significance of colonialism for the German empire / Birthe Kundrus -- The Kaiserreich as a society of migration / Thomas Mergel -- Wilhelmine nationalism in global contexts : mobility, race, and global consciousness / Sebastian Conrad -- Imperial Germany under globalization / Cornelius Torp -- German industry and American big business, 1900-1914 / Volker Berghahn.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2011018394
ISBN9780857452528 (hbk.)
ISBN0857452525 (hbk.)
ISBN9780857452870 (e-ISBN)
ISBN0857452878 (e-ISBN)

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Joyner General Stacks DD220 .I65 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold