Society, culture, and the state in Germany, 1870-1930
By: Geoff Eley, editor.
Contributors: Eley, Geoff, 1949-
Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Women -- Germany -- Social conditions; Feminism -- Germany -- History; Political culture -- Germany; Germany -- Social life and customs; Germany -- Social conditions; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
Description: Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930 draws together important new work on the Kaiserreich - the period between Bismarck's unification of Germany and the First World War. During the 1970s and 1980s, a series of inspiring but divisive controversies called into question the ways in which German historical development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was mainly understood.

These discussions focused on issues of continuity between Bismarck and Hitler and the peculiar strength of authoritarianism in German political culture, raising important questions about the deep origins of Nazism and about Germany's alleged differences from the West.

This collection purposefully brings certain issues and approaches into the foreground. These include the value of taking gender seriously as a priority of historical work; the emergence of social policy and welfare during the early twentieth century; religious belief and affiliation as a neglected dimension in modern German history; the tremendous importance of the First World War as a climacteric; and the exciting potentials of cultural studies and the new cultural history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.