Red Saxony

Author : James N. Retallack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199668787
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Saxony written by James N. Retallack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Red Saxony' reappraises Germany's prospects for democratic governance from the mid-19th century to the collapse of the Second Reich, asking: how was Germany governed in the era of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II? How did fear of revolution push liberal and conservative parties together? How did Germany's leaders see their nation's future?

Author : James Retallack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192523910
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Saxony written by James Retallack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped, but political democratization was opposed by many members of the German bourgeoisie. Frightened by the electoral success of the Social Democrats after 1871, anti-democrats deployed many strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness. They battled socialists, liberals, and Jews at election time, but they also strove to rewrite the electoral rules of the game. Using a regional lens to rethink older assumptions about Germany's changing political culture, this volume focuses as much on contemporary Germans' perceptions of electoral fairness as on their experiences of voting. It devotes special attention to various semi-democratic voting systems whereby a general and equal suffrage (for the Reichstag) was combined with limited and unequal ones for local and regional parliaments. For the first time, democratization at all three tiers of governance and their reciprocal effects are considered together. Although the bourgeois face of German authoritarianism was nowhere more evident than in the Kingdom of Saxony, Red Saxony illustrates how other Germans grew to fear the spectre of democracy. Although twists and turns lay ahead, that fear made it easier for Hitler and the Nazis to win elections in the 1920s and to entomb German democracy in 1933.

Author : Brian J. Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gustav Stresemann and "Red Saxony" written by Brian J. Hale and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571819420
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazism in Central Germany written by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study fills a large gap as most texts on Nazism in German society around 1933 concentrate on the country's western parts. This book deals with the problems caused by the constitutional monarchy, democracy, and dictatorship.

Author : Donald Warren Jr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401510172
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Kingdom of Saxony written by Donald Warren Jr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old saw, "Gennany is the heart of Europe, Saxony the heart of Germany," Treitschke derided as that "favorite, self congratulatory phrase" parroted by reactionary Saxons. His ridicule is understandable. He was born a Saxon, yet adored Prussia, which forced his native kingdom into the Kaiserreich. Historians of this century, also loyal in a sense to the German Empire, have dismissed internal affairs of the federal states as parochial. Thus Saxony, though wracked by political agitation more severe than in any other German state during the last two decades of the Wilhelmian era, has been generally looked upon as peripheral to the great national issues of the day. Solid as Treitschke's grounds may in his time have been for scoffing at the anachronism of Saxon particularism, recent history has shown that Saxony was after all the heart of Gennany in more than the geographic sense. It was by far the most Lutheran region of Gennany and was often called the "model land" of Liberalism, a way of life not to be confused with liberal democracy in the M usterliindle, Baden, or in the Kingdom of Wiirttemberg. In Land Sachsen the small independent entre preneur did not vanish from the scene during the industrial boom of 1871-g0 as he did in Rhineland-Westphalia.

Author : Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800734921
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nazism in Central Germany written by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies on the spread of Nazism in German society before and after 1933 concentrate on the country's western parts. As a result, so the author claims, our overall picture of the situation has been distorted since the eastern areas contained a substantial portion of the population. Neglecting them means that all generalizations about the Nazi period require further testing. This first comprehensive study of Saxony therefore fills a large gap, also in light of the fact that Saxony was one of the most industrialized German regions. It deals with problems of continuity and change in German society during three distinct phases: constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, and dictatorship. The author shows convincingly that it was deep-rooted local traditions that determined the success or failure of Nazism among the local population.

Author : Donald Warren Jr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401504065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Kingdom of Saxony written by Donald Warren Jr and published by Springer. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old saw, "Gennany is the heart of Europe, Saxony the heart of Germany," Treitschke derided as that "favorite, self congratulatory phrase" parroted by reactionary Saxons. His ridicule is understandable. He was born a Saxon, yet adored Prussia, which forced his native kingdom into the Kaiserreich. Historians of this century, also loyal in a sense to the German Empire, have dismissed internal affairs of the federal states as parochial. Thus Saxony, though wracked by political agitation more severe than in any other German state during the last two decades of the Wilhelmian era, has been generally looked upon as peripheral to the great national issues of the day. Solid as Treitschke's grounds may in his time have been for scoffing at the anachronism of Saxon particularism, recent history has shown that Saxony was after all the heart of Gennany in more than the geographic sense. It was by far the most Lutheran region of Gennany and was often called the "model land" of Liberalism, a way of life not to be confused with liberal democracy in the M usterliindle, Baden, or in the Kingdom of Wiirttemberg. In Land Sachsen the small independent entre preneur did not vanish from the scene during the industrial boom of 1871-g0 as he did in Rhineland-Westphalia.

Author : Donald Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Kingdom of Saxony written by Donald Warren and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Warren (jr)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789401510189
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Kingdom of Saxony written by Donald Warren (jr) and published by . This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Illuminating Engineering Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society written by Illuminating Engineering Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: