Fighting for the Soul of Germany - The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion After Unification

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Ayako Bennette is Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College. Klappentext Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette's bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871! when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany! Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich. Zusammenfassung Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette’s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich.

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• Authors: Rebecca A. Bennette, Rebecca Ayako Bennette, Bennette Rebecca Ayako
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2012
• EAN: 9780674065635
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06563-5
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies; Harvard Historical Studies (Ha; Harvard Historical Studies; Harvard Historical Studies (HUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church