Imperial Germany 1871-1918 (The Short Oxford History of Germany)

Contents......Page 8
List of maps......Page 12
List of contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 18
Continuity and rupture......Page 19
‘Playing with scales’......Page 23
Contesting the past......Page 25
Key themes......Page 28
1 Bismarckian Germany......Page 35
The new empire......Page 37
Germany in Europe......Page 40
Bismarck’s foreign policy......Page 43
The task of national consolidation......Page 48
Bismarck’s domestic policies......Page 51
The end of the Bismarckian era......Page 55
2 Wilhelmine Germany......Page 57
Social traditions and conflicts in a nervous age......Page 58
Domestic politics......Page 60
World empires and European politics......Page 67
The First World War......Page 72
Imperial Germany’s place in history......Page 74
3 Economic and social developments......Page 78
Class society......Page 79
From agrarian to industrial state......Page 86
Big business, technology, and the state......Page 90
Complex identities......Page 94
Conclusion......Page 97
4 Religion and confessional conflict......Page 100
Conflict......Page 103
Integration......Page 110
The Jews......Page 112
Religion, secularization, modernization......Page 118
5 Culture and the arts......Page 123
Institutions of the cultural world......Page 126
Amateurs and art culture......Page 129
Serious art and the art establishment......Page 133
Art for entertainment......Page 136
German Modernism and the avant-garde......Page 137
6 Gendered Germany......Page 145
The gendered distribution of life’s opportunities......Page 147
Childhood and youth......Page 148
Education and training......Page 150
Employment......Page 152
Ways of life......Page 155
The women’s movement and anti-feminism......Page 157
Nationalism, ‘high politics’, and war......Page 161
Conclusion......Page 164
7 The bourgeoisie and reform......Page 168
Identity, politics, values......Page 169
The range and diversity of reform......Page 173
The potentials and dynamics of bourgeois reform......Page 183
Unity in diversity: assumptions, orientations, strategies......Page 186
8 Political culture and democratization......Page 191
The authoritarian state and its historians......Page 194
Nation building and social pillarization......Page 199
New departures at the fin de siècle......Page 203
Paths towards democracy......Page 208
9 Militarism and radical nationalism......Page 213
Soldiers and policy......Page 214
The militarization of culture......Page 216
War and the discourse of politics......Page 219
Populist militarism......Page 223
The national opposition and the military......Page 228
10 Transnational Germany......Page 236
Transnational historiography......Page 238
Actors, media, public spheres......Page 241
‘World politics’, world markets, mobility......Page 243
Politics of the nation......Page 247
Subjectivities, representations, knowledge......Page 249
Germany in the world......Page 252
Taking stock......Page 255
11 War and revolution......Page 259
The spirit of 1914: public opinion in July and August......Page 260
Military developments......Page 262
The home front......Page 264
Propaganda: giving meaning to the war......Page 273
Making peace, making revolution......Page 275
The legacy of the war......Page 278
Looking forward......Page 281
Further reading......Page 293
Chronology......Page 316
Maps......Page 328
B......Page 336
C......Page 337
F......Page 338
H......Page 339
L......Page 340
M......Page 341
P......Page 342
S......Page 343
U......Page 344
Z......Page 345