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1 online resource (360 pages) |
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Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Place of Imperial Germany in German History; Chapter 1: When the Sonderweg Debate Left Us; Chapter 2: The Impossible Vanishing Point; Chapter 3: Was the German Empire a Sovereign State?; Chapter 4: Theories of Nationalism and the Critical Approach to German History; Part II: Politics, Culture, and Society; Chapter 5: The Authoritarian State and the Political Mass Market; Chapter 6: Using Violence to Govern; Chapter 7: Women's Suffrage and Antifeminism as a Litmus Test of Modernizing Societies |
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Chapter 8: Germany in the Age of Culture WarsChapter 9: Their Favorite Enemy; Chapter 10: A Difficult Relationship; Chapter 11: Cultural Nationalism and Beyond; Part III: War and Violence; Chapter 12: 1914-1945: A Second Thirty Years War?; Chapter 13: The Enduring Charm of the Great War; Chapter 14: The First World War and Military Culture; Chapter 15: A German Way of War?; Chapter 16: German War Crimes 1914 and 1941; Part IV: The German Empire in the World; Chapter 17: From the Periphery to the Center; Chapter 18: The Kaiserreich as a Society of Migration |
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Chapter 19: Wilhelmine Nationalism in Global ContextsChapter 20: Imperial Germany under Globalization; Chapter 21: German Industry and American Big Business, 1900-1914; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Subject Index; Index of Persons |
| Summary |
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period o |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Imperialism -- History
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Politics and culture -- Germany -- History
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Social change -- Germany -- History
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Violence -- Germany -- Colonies -- History
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Diplomatic relations.
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German colonies.
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Historiography.
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Imperialism.
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Politics and culture.
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Social change.
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Germany -- History -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054578
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Germany -- History -- 1871-1918 -- Historiography
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Germany -- Colonies -- History
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Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1871-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054514
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| Subject |
Germany.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Torp, Cornelius
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| ISBN |
9780857459213 |
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085745921X |
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