Wilhelminism and Its Legacies

German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930

280 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What 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.

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• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781571812230
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2003
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Geoff Eley, James Retallack