Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

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ISBN: 9781845450113 | 1845450116
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Copyright: 12/15/2005

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Berghahn (history, Columbia U.) provides a synthetic history of the German Empire from its founding in 1871 by Otto von Bismarck through World War I. He takes a thematic approach, offering (for example) chapters on economic developments, the organization of industry, demographic structures and developments, social stratification, minorities and maj

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Introduction: Imperial Germany and Historical Research

Part I: Economy

Economic Sectors and Structural Change

(9)

Agriculture, Industry, Commerce, and Services

Wealth and Incomes

National and Regional Economic Developments

(9)

Grunderboom, ``Great Depression'' (1873--1895), Expansion and the Onset of Recession (1896--1913/14)

Regions and Regional Shifts, Infrastructural Change

The Organization of Industry

(19)

Labor Markets, Capital Markets, and Cartels

The Development of Enterprise, Labor Conflicts

Industrial Research and Applied Science

Part II: Society

Demographic Structure and Development

(6)

Population Growth and Patterns of Migration

Town and Country

Social Stratification and Inequalities

(14)

Basic Issues

Social Mobility

Marriage Patterns

Life Expectancy and Health

Nutrition

Housing

Women and Men

(13)

Issues of Generation and Socialization

(16)

The Young and the Aged

Generations and Generational Conflicts

Agents of Socialization: Family, School, Churches, Apprenticeship, Military Service, High School, University

Minorities and Majorities

(26)

Basic Issues

The Catholic Minority

The Jewish Minority

Anti-Semitism

The Polish Minority

Alsace-Lorrainean and Danish Minorities

Basic Patterns of Social Inequality and their Milieus

113

(8)

Part III: Culture

High Culture and Popular Culture

121

(37)

Basic Issues

The Arts in the Bismarckian Period

The Rise of Modernism

Popular Culture, Workers' Culture, and Industrial Design

The Sciences and Humanities

158

(13)

Basic Issues

The Natural Sciences

The Humanities

The Press, Its Readerships, and the Role of Intellectuals

171

(5)

Part IV: The Realm of Politics

The Constitutional Framework

176

(13)

Basic Issues

The Evolution of the Constitution

Civil, Economic, and Financial Codes

Parties and Elections in a Period of Dynamic Change

189

(19)

Problems of Parliamentarization, Party Structures, and the Sociology of Parties

Electoral Systems and Electoral Behavior

Ideological Main Currents

Organizations and Movements in the Extraparliamentary Sphere

208

(17)

Basic Issues

Lobbies

Trade Unions and Professional Associations

Agricultural Associations

Nationalist Associations

The Political Organization of Minorities

The Peace Movement

Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Women's Associations

Pluralization and Bloc Formation

Structure and Functional Changes in the Executive Branch

225

(19)

The Government Apparatus: The Kaiser and his Court; Reich Government; Federal States and Local Governments

Infrastructural and Social Policies; Repression (Police, Judiciary, Army)

The Evolution of Domestic Politics, 1871--1914

244

(10)

The Early Years Up to Bismarck's Fall

Stabilization and Crisis, 1890--1914

Foreign Policy

254

(10)

Bismarck's Diplomatic Balancing Acts, 1871--1890

The Wilhelmine Period, 1890--1914

Part V: World War I

The July Crisis of 1914

264

(9)

Strategy, Diplomacy, War Aims As Seen ``From Above''

273

(12)

The Military

Neutrality and Alliance Politics

Economic Elites, War Aims, and Domestic Politics

The World War As Experienced ``From Below''

285

(6)

The Outbreak of War and the German People

The Totalization of War at the Front

The Totalization of War at the Home Front

Military Defeat and the Collapse of the Hohenzollern Monarchy

291

(5)

Conclusion

296

(5)

Appendix: Statistical Tables

301

(46)

Notes

347

(20)

Bibliography

367

(14)

Index

381

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Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

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