Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930 Contributor(s): Eley, Geoff (Editor), Retallack, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1571816879 ISBN-13: 9781571816870 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - History | Europe - Germany - History | Modern - 19th Century |
Dewey: 943.084 |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6" W x 9" (0.83 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Eley, Geoff: - 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. Retallack, James: -James Retallack is Professor of History at th Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. As a recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Humboldt Foundation, in 2002-03 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Göttingen. |