Abstract

Introduction Cornelius Torp and Sven Oliver Muller PART I: THE PLACE OF IMPERIAL GERMANY IN GERMAN HISTORY Chapter 1. When the Sonderweg Debate Left Us Helmut Walser Smith Chapter 2. The Impossible Vanishing Point. Societal Differentiation in Imperial Germany Benjamin Ziemann Chapter 3. Was the German Empire an Sovereign State? Dieter Grimm Chapter 4. Theories of Nationalism and the Critical Approach to German History John Breuilly PART II: POLITICS, CULTURE AND SOCIETY Chapter 5. The Authoritarian State and the Political Mass Market James Retallack Chapter 6. Using Violence to Govern: The German Empire and the French Third Republic Heinz-Gerhard Haupt Chapter 7. Woman Suffrage and Antifeminism as Litmus Test of Modernising Societies. A Western European Comparison Ute Planert Chapter 8. Germany in the Age of Culture Wars Olaf Blaschke Chapter 9. Their Favourite Enemy. German Social Historians and the Prussian Nobility Stephan Malinowski Chapter 10. A Difficult Relationship. Social History and the Bourgeoisie Manfred Hettling Chapter 11. Cultural Nationalism and Beyond. Musical Performances in Imperial Germany Sven Oliver Muller PART III: WAR AND VIOLENCE Chapter 12. 1914-1945: A Second Thirty Years War? Advantages and Disadvantages of an Interpretive Category Jorg Echternkamp Chapter 13. The Enduring Charm of the Great War. Some Reflections on Methodological Issues Roger Chickering Chapter 14. The First World War and Military Culture: Continuity and Change in Germany and Italy MacGregor Knox Chapter 15. A German Way of War? Narratives of German Militarism and Maratime Warfare in World War I Dirk Bonker Chapter 16. German War Crimes 1914/1941: The Question of Continuity Alan Kramer PART IV: THE GERMAN EMPIRE IN THE WORLD Chapter 17. From the Periphery to the Centre. On the Significance of Colonialism for the German Empire Birthe Kundrus Chapter 18. The Kaiserreich as a Society of Migration Thomas Mergel Chapter 19. Wilhelmine Nationalism in Global Contexts. Mobility, Race, and Global Consciousness Sebastian Conrad Chapter 20. Imperial Germany under Globalization Cornelius Torp Chapter 21. German Industry and American Big Business, 1900-1914 Volker Berghahn Selected Bibliography

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