Left Liberals The State And Popular Politics In Wilhelmine Germany

Author : Alastair Thompson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191542334
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany written by Alastair Thompson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-11-16 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alastair P. Thompson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198205432
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany written by Alastair P. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A rare and welcome addition to the current historiography.' -English Historical Review'Broad scope is one of the ways in which the book differs from other studies on the subject... Based on a truly impressive amount of archival research.' -HistoryAlastair Thompson here challenges the view of German Liberalism as the helpless victim of mass mobilization and political polarization in Wilhelmine Germany. He reveals the influence of a party that was the third largest in German politics by 1914 and which effectively wrote the Weimar Constitution. His study is central to understanding increasing Left Liberal support on the eve of war, and why liberal values could not be consolidated after 1918.

Author : Jan Palmowski
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191542849
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Liberalism in Imperial Germany written by Jan Palmowski and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780064920360
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany written by Richard J. Evans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oded Heilbronner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317194551
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Popular Liberalism to National Socialism written by Oded Heilbronner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ’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 : Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317043219
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany written by Matthew Jefferies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Daniel Ziblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001625
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Modern Democracy in Europe written by Daniel Ziblatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold re-interpretation of democracy's historical rise in Europe, Ziblatt highlights the surprising role of conservative political parties with sweeping implications for democracy today.

Author : Eric Kurlander
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733623
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Exclusion written by Eric Kurlander and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The failure of Liberalism” in Germany and its responsibility for the rise of Nazism has been widely discussed among scholars inside and outside Germany. This author argues that German liberalism failed because of the irreconcilable conflict between two competing visions of German identity. In following the German liberal parties from the Empire through the Third Reich Kurlander illustrates convincingly how an exclusionary racist Weltanschauung, conditioned by profound transformations in German political culture at large, gradually displaced the liberal-universalist conception of a democratic Rechtsstaat. Although there were some notable exceptions, this widespread obsession with „racial community [Volksgemeinschaft]“ caused the liberal parties to succumb to ideological lassitude and self-contradiction, paving the way for National Socialism.

Author : Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472117572
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dueling Students written by Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student life and political perspectives at Wilhelmine universities

Author : Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137085304
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918 written by Matthew Jefferies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.