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Zusammenfassung Sixteen international scholars explore the twin problems of electoral politics and social dislocation in the course of examining Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction Larry Eugene Jones and James Retallack; Part I. Electoral Politics in an Authoritarian Regime: 1. Interpreting Wilhelmine elections: national issues, fairness issues, and electoral mobilization Brett Fairbairn; 2. Antisocialism and electoral politics in regional perspective: the kingdom of Saxony James Retallack; 3. The liberal power monopoly in the cities of imperial Germany Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann; 4. Reichstag elections in the Kaiserreich: the prospects for electoral research in the interdisciplinary context Peter Steinbach; Part II. Gender, Identity, and Political Participation: 5. Women, gender, and the limits of political history in the age of 'mass' politics Eve Rosenhaft; 6. Gender and the culture of work: ideology and identity in the world behind the mill gate, 1890-1914 Kathleen Canning; 7. Serving the Volk, saving the nation: women in the youth movement and the public sphere in Weimar Germany Elizabeth Harvey; 8. Modernization, emancipation, mobilization: Nazi society reconsidered Jill Stephenson; Part III. Local Dimensions of Political Culture: 9. Democracy or reaction? The political implications of localist ideas in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany Celia Applegate; 10. Communist music in the streets: politics and perceptions in Berlin at the end of the Weimar Republic Richard Bodek; 11. Weimar populism and National Socialism in local perspective Peter Fritzsche; 12. Political mobilization and associational life: some thoughts on the National Socialist German Workers' Club Roger Chickering; Part IV. The National Perspective: Continuities and Discontinuities: 13. 1918 and all that: reassessing the periodization of recent German history Stuart T. Robson; 14. Generational conflict and the problem of political mobilization in the Weimar Republic Larry Eugene Jones; 15. The social bases of political cleavages in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 Jürgen W. Falter; 16. The formation and dissolution of a German national electorate: from Kaiserreich to Third Reich Richard Bessel; Index....
