Urban Liberalism In Imperial Germany

Author : Jan Palmowski
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542848

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Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany by Jan Palmowski Pdf

Debates about Liberalism in imperial Germany have focused almost exclusively on the national level. This book investigates liberal politics in local government; the only sphere in which liberals had direct access to power throughout Germany. Through the study of one of Germany's most progressive cities, Frankfurt am Main, Jan Palmowski examines more generally the processes of politicization and policy formulation at the local level. He argues that in Frankfurt as elsewhere, local affairs had become politicized not around 1900, as is generally assumed, but by the 1870s. Once in power, the liberals' concern for religion, social policy, and education, as well as their skilful use of fiscal policy shows that liberals in Germany were as sophisticated as liberals in Britain or France. Even in the face of an authoritarian state structure, German liberals received and made use of freedom for renewal and reform. German liberalism was not inherently weak. Instead, the crucial problem lay in the country's complicated federal structure, which made it impossible to transfer innovations from the local level to the state and national levels.

Author : Alastair Thompson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542336

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Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany by Alastair Thompson Pdf

Although often viewed as ineffectual intellectuals, or a spent political force, Left Liberals had become the third largest party in German politics by 1914 and in the German Revolution of 1918/19 it was Left Liberals who effectively wrote the new Weimar constitution. This study, based on extensive original research, investigates Left Liberals in the locality, as well as at the national level, with case studies ranging from Kiel to Kattowitz. Overturning old notions of German liberalism as the helpless victim of mass mobilization and political polarization, it is central to understanding both increasing left liberal influence and support on the eve of the First World War, and why liberal values could not be consolidated after 1918. This study has powerful general implications for the history of imperial Germany, reassessing the role of political parties, public perceptions of politics, and the impact and character of the state.

Author : Konrad H. Jarausch,Larry Eugene Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018987860

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In Search of a Liberal Germany by Konrad H. Jarausch,Larry Eugene Jones Pdf

A critical re-examination by American, British and German historians of the history of German liberalism exploring the interconnections between liberal currents in culture, society, and politics. By focusing on local and regional developments, this collection also suggests that the failure of German liberalism was by no means as complete or as widespread as the traditional literature has tended to argue.

Author : James J. Sheehan
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017605051

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German Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century by James J. Sheehan Pdf

Liberalism is an attempt to understand and change the world, an ideology and a movement, a set of ideas and a set of institutions. These ideas began in Western Europe. This book examines liberal ideas and institutions in Germany from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century.

Author : Dieter Langewiesche
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024890324

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Liberalism in Germany by Dieter Langewiesche Pdf

In the 19th century, German liberalism grew into a powerful movement vociferous in its demands for the freedom of the individual and for political reform. This volume traces the development of German liberalism in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Author : James J. Sheehan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Brentano, Lujo, 1844-1931
ISBN : OCLC:844601181

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The Career of Lujo Brentano; a Study of Liberalism and Social Reform in Imperial Germany by James J. Sheehan Pdf

Author : Larry E. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608020648

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German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933 by Larry E. Jones Pdf

Author : Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1845455207

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Liberal Imperialism in Germany by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Pdf

In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity leading up to the official founding of Germany's colonial empire in 1884.

Author : Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317043218

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany by Matthew Jefferies Pdf

Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an 'extraordinary body of historical scholarship', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This Companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to reflect the full range of research being undertaken on imperial German history today and together offer a comprehensive and authoritative reference resource. Overall this collection will provide scholars and students with a lively take on this fascinating period of German history, from the nation’s unification in 1871 right up until the end of World War I.

Author : Andrew Lees
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0472112589

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Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany by Andrew Lees Pdf

An important examination of the colorful histories of urbanization and social reform in Imperial Germany

Author : Eric Kurlander
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845450698

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The Price of Exclusion by Eric Kurlander Pdf

Although there were some notable exceptions, this widespread obsession with "racial community" caused the liberal parties to succumb to ideological lassitude and self-contradiction, paving the way for National Socialism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : James Retallack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199204885

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Imperial Germany 1871-1918 by James Retallack Pdf

An international team of twelve expert contributors provides both an introduction to and an interpretation of the key themes in German history from the foundation of the Reich in 1871 to the end of the First World War in 1918.

Author : Oded Heilbronner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317194569

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From Popular Liberalism to National Socialism by Oded Heilbronner Pdf

’Long live liberty, equality, fraternity and dynamite’ So went the traditional slogan of the radical liberals in Greater Swabia, the south-western part of modern Germany. This book investigates the development of what the author terms ’popular liberalism’ in this region, in order to present a more nuanced understanding of political and cultural patterns in Germany up to the early 1930s. In particular, the author offers an explanation for the success of National Socialism before 1933 in certain regions of South Germany, arguing that the radical liberal sub-culture was not subsumed by the Nazi Party, but instead changed its form of representation. Together with the famous völkish fraction and the leftist fraction within the chapters of the Nazi Party, there were radical-liberal associations, ex-members of radical-liberal parties, sympathizers with these parties, and notables with a radical orientation derived from family and regional traditions. These people and associations believed that the Nazi Party could fulfil their radical - liberal vision, rooted in the local democratic and liberal traditions which stretched from 1848 to the early 20th century. By looking afresh at the relationship between local-regional identities and national politics, this book makes a major contribution to the study of the roots of Nazism.

Author : Suzanne Marchand,David Lindenfeld
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807129798

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Germany at the Fin de Siècle by Suzanne Marchand,David Lindenfeld Pdf

The phrase fin de siècle conjures up images of artistic experimentation and political decadence. The contributors to this volume argue that Wilhelmine Germany—best known for its industrial and military muscle—also shared these traits. Their essays look back to the years between 1885 and 1914 to find in Germany a mixture of sociopolitical malaise and experimental exhilaration that was similar in many ways to the better-known cases of France and Austria. Revising the view that the German Second Reich was merely a precursor to the Third, this broad-scoped study presents pre–World War I Germany in its own fascinating and often contradictory terms. The foundations of the antiliberal passions that would plague the Weimar Republic are evident, but Wilhelmine society also had a lighter, more playful and moderate spirit, one that was largely extinguished by the Great War. Blending social, cultural, and intellectual history, the contributors—a distinguished cross-section of older and younger scholars—trace changing German views on liberalism, penal reform, race, women, art, popular culture, and technology. They juxtapose better-known figures such as Max Weber, Thomas Mann, and Martin Heidegger with now-forgotten individuals like the Jewish feminist novelist Grete Meisel-Hess and the iconoclastic Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin. Their essay topics range from the esoteric and erotic poetry of Stefan George to the Jewish comedy of the Herrnfeld Theater. “Modernity” is examined from the perspectives of bourgeois cinema-goers and judicial reformers, as well as from the viewpoint of Carl Jung. The result is a variegated picture of an unsettled world, rich in its innovations, ambitious in its undertakings, and often apocalyptic in its dreams.

Author : James N. Retallack,Professor of History and German Studies James Retallack
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802091451

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The German Right, 1860-1920 by James N. Retallack,Professor of History and German Studies James Retallack Pdf

With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics. The dynamic political culture that emerged challenged the adaptability of the 'interlocking directorate of the Right.' This work examines how the authoritarian imagination inspired the Right and how political pragmatism constrained it.