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Zusatztext "It is one of the main merits of this volume to historicize the 'modern' concept of parliamentarianism and democracy ... offers a stimulating contribution to the scholarship on Imperial Germany." ????H-Soz-u-Kult "[this] brief review cannot do justice to the breadth of contributions offered in this slender volume. While the collection does not cover all aspects of Wilhelmine history...it does provide a good introduction to the current state o f the field...these essays offer avenues for further exploration rather than definitive statements." ????German Studies Review "...a valuable volume which makes some substantial contribution to a number of subfields in modern German history...the editors are to be thanked for assembling a volume of original and insightful works! one which ought to be in the collection of every library that supports programs in contemporary German history! cultural studies! or political science." ????Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire Informationen zum Autor Geoff Eley is the Sylvia L. Thrupp Collegiate Professor of Comparative History and has taught at the University of Michigan since 1979. His primary appointment is in History, with a cross appointment in German Studies and an additional affiliation with Film and Video Studies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung These essays uncover the distinctive elements of 'modern' German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II, while at the same time advancing alternative readings of events before 1914. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Volker R. Berghahn Acknowledgments Introduction Geoff Eley and James Retallack Chapter 1. Making a Place in the Nation: Meanings of "Citizenship" in Wilhelmine Germany Geoff Eley Chapter 2. Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism: Constructing Economic Democracy through Cooperation Brett Fairbairn Chapter 3. "Few better farmers in Europe"? Productivity, Change, and Modernization in East-Elbian Agriculture, 1870-1913 Oliver Grant Chapter 4. The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform: German Debates about Modern Nation-States Mark Hewitson Chapter 5. Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism Matthew Jefferies Chapter 6. Imperial Socialism of the Chair: Gustav Schmoller and German Weltpolitik, 1897-1905 Erik Grimmer-Solem Chapter 7. "Our natural ally": German Social Democrats, Anglo-German Relations, and the Contradictory Agendas of Wilhelmine Socialism, 1897-1900 Paul Probert Chapter 8. The "Malet Incident," October 1895: A Prelude to the Kaiser's "Krüger Telegram" in the Context of the Anglo-German Imperialist Rivalry Willem-Alexander van't Padje Chapter 9. Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State: The Case of Carl Peters Arne Perras Chapter 10. The Law and ...
