Dueling students : conflict, masculinity, and politics in German universities, 1890-1914 / Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker.

Author
Zwicker, Lisa Fetheringill, 1972- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011.
Description
ix, 296 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany [More in this series]
    Summary note
    Standard narratives hold that the German students of the late 1800s and early 1900s were conservative, anti-Semitic, nationalistic, and militaristic. According to such accounts, these students -- who became the doctors, lawyers, civil servants, and teachers of the Weimar Republic -- already shared ideological similarities with the National Socialists. The author investigates the full range of student politics and argues that the conflict between different groups within this student body played an important role in the openness of many to liberal perspectives. This work shows that as university attendance expanded beyond the middle class, new student organizations and groups profiled themselves as defenders of liberal values such as equality, the right to associate, and freedom of speech. These ideas, combined with a sense of elitism and virulent anti-Catholicism among various groups, support the picture of a much wider range of student politics than is traditionally envisioned at Wilhelmine universities.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Students: the intellectual aristocracy of the German nation
    • Performing German student life: the duel, the honor code, and the fraternities
    • The Burschenschaft, fraternity traditions, and reform within German student life
    • The liberal "free students"
    • Segregation or integration?: Jewish students at German universities
    • The limits of antisemitism at German universities
    • The alternative elite: Catholic fraternities and associations
    • Playing politics: the academic Kulturkampf
    • Conclusion: students and politics at German universities
    • Appendix: statistics on the student federations from 1913.
    ISBN
    • 9780472117574 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0472117572 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2010043192
    OCLC
    670248334
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