Contesting the German Empire 1871 - 1918

Contesting the German Empire 1871 - 1918

Author: Matthew Jefferies

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Jefferies offers a historiographical overview of more than a century of works on the German empire, presenting varying perspectives on gender, cultural history, foreign relations, colonialism, and war. He also explores the controversial historical reputations of Bismark and Kaiser Wilhelm II.


Contesting the German Empire 1871 - 1918

Contesting the German Empire 1871 - 1918

Author: Matthew Jefferies

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2008-01-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781405129978

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This volume provides an up-to-date and accessible guide to the diversity of current thinking on Imperial Germany. Offers a historiographical overview, spanning more than a century of works on the German Empire Guides readers through the main approaches, from 'personalist' to 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' Presents varying perspectives on gender, cultural history, foreign relations, colonialism, and war Explores the controversial historical reputations of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II Reflects the wide range of opinions on Imperial Germany held by historians today


Imperial Germany 1871-1918

Imperial Germany 1871-1918

Author: James Retallack

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-04-10

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 019160710X

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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.


Imperial Germany Revisited

Imperial Germany Revisited

Author: Sven Oliver Müller

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0857459007

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The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.


Contesting the Reformation

Contesting the Reformation

Author: C. Scott Dixon

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1405113235

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Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross-national, interdisciplinary perspective. Represents the only English-language single-authored synthetic study of Reformation historiography Addresses both the English and the Continental debates on Reformation history Provides a thematic approach which takes in the main trends in modern Reformation history Draws on the most recent publications relating to Reformation studies Considers the social, political, cultural, and intellectual implications of the Reformation and the associated literature


Bismarck and the German Empire

Bismarck and the German Empire

Author: Lynn Abrams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1134229143

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Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871–1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history. Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural developments across the period, Lynn Abrams examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire. Including the latest research, the book also covers: how Bismarck consolidated his regime the Wilhelmian period the factors that led to the outbreak of World War One. With a new introduction and updated further reading section – including a guide to useful websites – this book gives students the ideal introduction to this key period of German history.


The German Minority in Interwar Poland

The German Minority in Interwar Poland

Author: Winson Chu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-25

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107008301

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Explores what happened when Germans from three different empires were forced to live together in Poland after the First World War.


German Visions of India, 1871–1918

German Visions of India, 1871–1918

Author: P. Myers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1137316926

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The wide-ranging fascination with India in Wilhelmine Germany emerged during a time of extraordinary cultural and political tensions. This study shows how religious (denominational and spiritual) dilemmas, political agendas, and shifting social consensus became inextricably entangled in the wider German encounter with India during the Kaiserreich.