| Description |
xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The German Empire as a system of skirted decisions -- 2. A delaying compromise: the division of authority in the German Imperial constitution of 1871 -- 3. The Prussian conception of the state and the German idea of Empire: Prussia and the German Empire in recent German history -- 4. Society and state in Europe in the age of liberalism, 1870-1890 -- 5. The causes and objectives of German imperialism before 1914 -- 6. Economy, society and the state in the German Empire, 1870-1918 -- 7. Culture and politics in the German Empire -- 8. The latent crisis of the Wilhelmine Empire: the state and society in Germany, 1890-1914 -- 9. Domestic factors in German foreign policy before 1914 -- 10. Public opinion and foreign policy in Wilhelmine Germany, 1897-1914 -- 11. The spirit of 1914 and the ideology of a German 'Sonderweg' -- 12. The social consequences of World War I: the case of Germany -- 13. The German revolution, 1918-1920: political revolution and social protest |
| Summary |
The German Empire owed its existence to a 'revolution from above' but in time its citizens came to perceive it as the embodiment of the German nation state. The power of the Prusso-German state - with its outward splendour and military pageantry, and with the prestige that it began to enjoy within the system of European states - gradually came to outweigh older, more broadly based traditions of cultural identity. The studies in this book are the harvest of more than 20 years intensive research into the history of the German Empire by one of Germany's leading historians. Taken together, they offer a cogent analysis of the main developments and issues in a formative and portentous period of Germany's history |
| Analysis |
Germany History, 1871-1918 |
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Germany History, 1871-1918 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-292) and index |
| Notes |
Translation of: Autoritäre Nationalstaat |
| Subject |
Political culture -- Germany.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054634
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Germany -- Cultural policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115153
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1866-1871. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054632
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| Author |
Deveson, Richard, translator
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| LC no. |
95031744 |
| ISBN |
0340593601 paperback |
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0340645342 |
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9780340593608 paperback |
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9780340645345 |
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