Imperial Germany 1871-1918

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-920487-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 436 g

The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany became the dynamo of Europe. Its economic and military power were pre-eminent; its science and technology, education, and municipal administration were the envy of the world; and its avant-garde artists reflected the ferment in European culture. But Germany also played a decisive role in tipping Europe's fragile balance of power over the brink and into the cataclysm of the First World War, eventually leading to the empire's collapse in military defeat and revolution in November 1918.

With contributions from an international team of twelve experts in the field, this volume offers an ideal introduction to this crucial era, taking care to situate Imperial Germany in the larger sweep of modern German history, without suggesting that Nazism or the Holocaust were inevitable endpoints to the developments charted here.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Retallack, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Katharine Anne Lerman: Bismarckian Germany

- 2: Mark Hewitson: Wilhelmine Germany

- 3: Brett Fairbairn: Economic and social developments

- 4: Christopher Clark: Religion and confessional conflict

- 5: Celia Applegate: Culture and the arts

- 6: Angelika Schaser: Gendered Germany

- 7: Edward Ross Dickinson: The bourgeoisie and reform

- 8: Thomas Kühne: Political culture and democratization

- 9: Roger Chickering: Militarism and radical nationalism

- 10: Sebastian Conrad: Transnational Germany

- 11: Jeffrey Verhey: War and revolution

- 12: James Retallack: Looking forward

- Further Reading

- Chronology

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

James Retallack is Professor of History and German Studies at the University of Toronto. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Göttingen and the Free University, Berlin, and has published widely on German history from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.