Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany

Abstract

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 Jurgen W. Falter 16. The formation and dissolution of a German national electorate: from Kaiserreich to Third Reich Richard Bessel Index.