{"product_id":"wilhelminism-and-its-legacies-german-modernities-imperialism-and-the-meanings-of-reform-1890-1930-9781571812230","title":"Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWhat 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 grapple with the ambivalent, cross-cutting nature of German \"modernities\" and reassess their impact on long-term developments running through the Wilhelmine age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"It is one of the main merits of this volume to historicize the 'modern' concept of parliamentarianism and democracy ... offers a stimulating contribution to the scholarship on Imperial Germany.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · H-Soz-u-Kult\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"[this] brief review cannot do justice to the breadth of contributions offered in this slender volume. While the collection does not cover all aspects of Wilhelmine history…it does provide a good introduction to the current state o f the field…these essays offer avenues for further exploration rather than definitive statements.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · German Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"…a valuable volume which makes some substantial contribution to a number of subfields in modern German history…the editors are to be thanked for assembling a volume of original and insightful works, one which ought to be in the collection of every library that supports programs in contemporary German history, cultural studies, or political science.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · Canadian Journal of History\/Annales canadiennes d’histoire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eVolker R. Berghahn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeoff Eley\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJames Retallack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Making a Place in the Nation: Meanings of \"Citizenship\" in Wilhelmine Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeoff Eley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism: Constructing Economic Democracy through Cooperation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBrett Fairbairn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Few better farmers in Europe\"? Productivity, Change, and Modernization in East-Elbian Agriculture, 1870-1913\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eOliver Grant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform: German Debates about Modern Nation-States\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMark Hewitson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMatthew Jefferies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Imperial Socialism of the Chair: Gustav Schmoller and German Weltpolitik, 1897-1905\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eErik Grimmer-Solem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Our natural ally\": German Social Democrats, Anglo-German Relations, and the Contradictory Agendas of Wilhelmine Socialism, 1897-1900\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003ePaul Probert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e The \"Malet Incident,\" October 1895: A Prelude to the Kaiser's \"Krüger Telegram\" in the Context of the Anglo-German Imperialist Rivalry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eWillem-Alexander van't Padje\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State: The Case of Carl Peters\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eArne Perras\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e The Law and the Colonial State: Legal Codification versus Practice in a German Colony\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNils Ole Oermann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Max Warburg and German Politics: The Limits of Financial Power in Wilhelmine Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eNiall Ferguson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Continuity and Change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany: From the 1918 Revolution to the Ruhr Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eConan Fischer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e A Wilhelmine Legacy? Coudenhove-Kalergi's \"Paneuropa\" as an Alternative Path towards a European (Post-)Modernity, 1922-1932\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKatiana Orluc\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/b\u003e Ideas into Politics: Meanings of \"Stasis\" in Wilhelmine Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJames Retallack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Publications by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041413267799,"sku":"9781571812230","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571812230.jpg?v=1750950176","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wilhelminism-and-its-legacies-german-modernities-imperialism-and-the-meanings-of-reform-1890-1930-9781571812230","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}