Author: Gordon Alexander Craig
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198221135
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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A history of the rise and fall of united Germany, which lasted only 75 years from its establishment by Bismark in 1870. Suitable for A Level and upwards. In the OXFORD HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE series.
Author: Ellen Lovell Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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This is the only book to deal with the Catholic clerical influence on the German Center party, a forerunner of Germany's present Christian Democratic Union. In addition to tracing the effect of the Catholic-clerical influence up on the parliamentary functioning of the Center party, Ms. Evans explores the relationship between the Center and other political parties--both in opposition and in coalition--and the efforts of the party's leaders to satisfy the diverse interest groups it represented. Ms. Evans notes that a combination of circumstances made necessary a separate party for German Catholics: the resentment of Catholics concerning the events of German unification; the increased solidarity and militancy of the church under Pius IX; and the need for defense against the demands for anticlerical legislation made by German liberals. The original small party grew enormously. It changed both its nature and its platform during the years of the Kulturkampf, the campaign to weaken the Catholic church conducted by Bismarck and the liberal parties. As a consequence of the conflict, the party developed an ideological base flexible enough to encompass a strong civil rights platform, an opposition to militarism, a concern for social welfare, an affiliation with labor union Organizations, and even a tentative embrace of democracy. At the same time, the continued pursuit of clerical goals, and in particular the goal of maintaining denominational education, made it difficult for the Center to form enduring partnerships with either Liberals or Socialists, in spite of many mutual interests. Nevertheless, the party accomplished many of its goals. Ms. Evans concentrates on some of these: The party's education policy, social policy, church-state relations, and corporativism.
Author: Michael Sturmer
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812966201
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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In a remarkably vibrant narrative, Michael Stürmer blends high politics, social history, portraiture, and an unparalleled command of military and economic developments to tell the story of Germany’s breakneck rise from new nation to Continental superpower. It begins with the German military’s greatest triumph, the Franco-Prussian War, and then tracks the forces of unification, industrialization, colonization, and militarization as they combined to propel Germany to become the force that fatally destabilized Europe’s balance of power. Without The German Empire’s masterly rendering of this story, a full understanding of the roots of World War I and World War II is impossible.
Author: Marilyn Shevin Coetzee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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This book traces the development of the German Army League from its inception through the earliest days of the Weimar Republic. Founded in January 1912, the League promoted the intensification of German militarism and the cultivation of German nationalism. As the last and second largest of the patriotic societies to emerge after 1890, the League led the campaign for army expansion in 1912 and 1913, and against the growing influence of socialism and pacifism within Germany. Attempting to harness popular and nationalist sentiment against the government's foreign and domestic policies by preying on Germans' fears of defeat and socialism, the League contributed to the polarization of German society and aggravated the international tensions which culminated in the Great War. Coetzee combines an analysis of the League's principal personalities and policies with an exploration of the inner workings of local and regional branches, arguing that rather than having served solely as a barometer of populist nationalist sentiment, the League also reflected the machinations of men of education and prominence who believed that an unresponsive German government had stifled their own careers, dealt ineffectually with the prospect of domestic unrest, and squandered the nation's military superiority over its European rivals.
Author: Thomas Lorman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135010938X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Winner of the BASEES George Blazyca Prize In 1945, just six years after coming to power, the Slovak People's Party (SLS) was disbanded as a 'criminal organisation' and its leader - Jozef Tiso - hanged for treason. What made it possible for the SLS, initially founded in 1905 by priests to represent the Catholic Slovak minority residing in the north of the Kingdom of Hungary, to form an openly pro-Nazi government in 1939? And what put Slovakia on the path to a 'fascism' that would see more than 45,000 Jews deported to their deaths in 1942? To answer these questions, Thomas Lorman draws on more than a decade's research in archives across the region in Hungarian, Slovak and Latin, and studies the party's formative years in depth for the first time in English. Lorman examines the various strands which fused to form the party and its popularity, including a complex and nebulous nationalism, Catholicism and a resounding mistrust of liberalism and 'modernity'. The Making of the Slovak People's Party is a vital and timely study of the genesis and success of far-right movements that will be essential reading for all scholars working on 20th-century Eastern European history, nationalism and the interplay of religion and politics.
Author: Matthew Jefferies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137085304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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It has often ben suggested that artists and writers in Germany's imperial era shunned social engagement, preferring instead apolitical introspection. However, as Matthew Jefferies reveals, whether one looks at the painters, poets and architects who helped to create an official imperial identity after 1871; the cultural critics and reformers of the later 19th century; or the new generation of cultural producers that emerged in the years around 1900, the social, political and cultural were never far apart. In this attractively illustrated book, Jefferies provides a lively introduction to the principal movements in German high culture between 1871 and 1918, in the context of imperial society and politics. He not only demonstrates that Germany's 'Imperial culture' was every bit as fascinating as the much better known 'Weimar culture' of the 1920s, but argues that much of what came later has origins in the imperial period. Filling a significant gap in the current historiography, this study will appeal to all those with an interest in the rich and diverse culture of Imperial Germany.
Author: Robert G. Moeller
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351720880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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This collection of essays, first published in 1986, provides an exciting introduction to modern German agrarian history. The essays offer a revised account of the agricultural sector in an industrial Germany, and provide an extensive methodological, conceptual and thematic range. This collection challenges accepted interpretations, suggests some alternatives and at the same time offers a context in which new questions can be posed and answers can be sought.
Author: Richard J. Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317553020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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In the search for the causes of the First World War and the origins of Hitler’s ‘Third Reich’, the attention of historians has turned increasingly towards the development of German society under Kaiser Wilhelm II. These ten essays, first published in 1978, introduced interpretations of Wilhelmine Germany to an English-speaking audience and contributed towards the discussion of these interpretations that were taking place amongst German historians. This book is ideal for student of history, particularly German history.
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Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422370940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Author: Carole Elizabeth Adams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A case-study of the nature and limitations of pre-First World War 'feminism'.
