Format:
1 online resource (251 pages)
ISBN:
9780191548178
Series Statement:
Short Oxford History of Germany Ser.
Content:
An international team of twelve expert contributors provides both an introduction to and an interpretation of the key themes in German history from the foundation of the Reich in 1871 to the end of the First World War in 1918.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of maps -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Continuity and rupture -- 'Playing with scales' -- Contesting the past -- Key themes -- 1 Bismarckian Germany -- The new empire -- Germany in Europe -- Bismarck's foreign policy -- The task of national consolidation -- Bismarck's domestic policies -- The end of the Bismarckian era -- 2 Wilhelmine Germany -- Social traditions and conflicts in a nervous age -- Domestic politics -- World empires and European politics -- The First World War -- Imperial Germany's place in history -- 3 Economic and social developments -- Class society -- From agrarian to industrial state -- Big business, technology, and the state -- Complex identities -- Conclusion -- 4 Religion and confessional conflict -- Conflict -- Integration -- The Jews -- Religion, secularization, modernization -- 5 Culture and the arts -- Institutions of the cultural world -- Amateurs and art culture -- Serious art and the art establishment -- Art for entertainment -- German Modernism and the avant-garde -- 6 Gendered Germany -- The gendered distribution of life's opportunities -- Childhood and youth -- Education and training -- Employment -- Ways of life -- Old age and death -- The women's movement and anti-feminism -- Nationalism, 'high politics', and war -- Conclusion -- 7 The bourgeoisie and reform -- Identity, politics, values -- The range and diversity of reform -- The potentials and dynamics of bourgeois reform -- Unity in diversity: assumptions, orientations, strategies -- 8 Political culture and democratization -- The authoritarian state and its historians -- Nation building and social pillarization -- New departures at the fin de siècle -- Paths towards democracy -- 9 Militarism and radical nationalism -- Soldiers and policy -- The militarization of culture.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199204878
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199204878
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=829425
Author information:
Retallack, James N. 1955-
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