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Subject(s)

• Political participation—Germany—History—Congresses [Browse]
• Elections—Germany—History—Congresses [Browse]
• Political culture—Germany—History—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Jones, Larry Eugene [Browse]
• Retallack, James N. [Browse]

Issuing body

• German History Society (Great Britain) [Browse]

Series

Publications of the German Historical Institute [More in this series]

Summary note

This collection of essays presents the work on Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. The authors - sixteen scholars from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany - consider this problem from novel and sometimes surprising viewpoints. The history of elections, narrowly conceived, is abandoned in favor of a broader inquiry into roots of German political loyalties and their relationship to the historic cleavages of class, gender, language, religion, generation and locality. The essays not only present archival findings, but they also pursue more theoretical or conjectural paradigms, and raise questions. Collectively, the authors explore the twin problems of electoral politics and social dislocation with language that is intentionally familiar, inventive, and allusive all at once - in a sense reflecting the Germans' own unfinished search for political consensus and social stability.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Contents

• Interpreting Wilhelmine elections / Brett Fairbairn
• Antisocialism and electoral politics in regional perspective / James Retallack
• The liberal power monopoly in the cities of imperial Germany / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
• Reichstag elections in the Kaiserreich / Peter Steinback
• Women, gender, and the limits of political history in the Age of "mass" politics / Eve Rosenhaft
• Gender and the culture of work / Kathleen Canning
• Serving the volk, saving the nation / Elizabeth Harvey
• Modernization, emancipation, mobilization / Jill Stephenson
• Democracy or reaction? / Celia Applegate
• Communist music in the streets / Richard Bodek
• Weimar populism and national socialism in local perspective / Peter Fritzche
• Political mobilization and associational life / Roger Chickering
• 1918 and all that / Stuart T. Robson
• Generational conflict and the problem of political mobilization in the Weimar Republic / Larry Eugene Jones
• The social bases of political cleavages in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 / Jürgen W. Falter
• The formation and dissolution of a German National electorate / Richard Bessel.

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Other title(s)

• Elections, Mass Politics & Social Change in Modern Germany
• Cambridge University Press. History.

ISBN

9781139052580 (ebook)

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