Imperial Germany: A Historiographical Companion

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The German Empire has been the focus of enormous historical interest, particularly during the last 30 years, when its relationship to the Third Reich became an acute historical and civic problem. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the rich historical literature on the subject. In topical chapters, a group of leading scholars from six different countries, who have themselves participated in crafting the historiography of Imperial Germany, address the principal interpretive issues that have informed this literature. The chapters present historiographical surveys, which integrate original analyses and extended bibliographies. The topics covered include historical geography, agriculture, technology and industrial growth, demographic and social change, regionalism and particularism, confessionalism, state and society, education, political mobilisation, the socialist labour movement, the academic disciplines and social thought, literature and the arts, foreign policy, colonialism and colonial empire, the armed forces and military planning, and Imperial Germany during World War I. The volume provides a central reference for students of modern German and European history.

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"This collection of 18 English-language contributions by specialists of the Kaiserreich, the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, is well suited to readers of many levels, from undergraduates to professional scholars....[T]he study is highly recommended for all levels. The authors succeed an synthesizing Imperial Germany. It is clear why that nation-state provided much of the ideological fodder for Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, and why its historical context still resonates today."-Choice
[T]he choice of themes is refreshing, and the extended bibliographies which follow each chapter are, with few exceptions, excellent.-German History
This collection of 18 English-language contributions by specialists of the Kaiserreich, the German Empire from 1871 to 1918, is well suited to readers of many levels, from undergraduates to professional scholars....[T]he study is highly recommended for all levels. The authors succeed an synthesizing Imperial Germany. It is clear why that nation-state provided much of the ideological fodder for Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, and why its historical context still resonates today.-Choice
"The choice of themes is refreshing, and the extended bibliographies which follow each chapter are, with few exceptions, excellent."-German History
"[T]he choice of themes is refreshing, and the extended bibliographies which follow each chapter are, with few exceptions, excellent."-German History

Author Bio

ROGER CHICKERING is Professor of History at the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. He has published widely in modern German history, including We Men Who Feel Most German (1984) and Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life, 1856-1915 (1993), winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History in 1994.