1 The Pan-German League as a Historical Problem
‘True Germans who show the world the real Prussian soul’
‘Representatives of the most reactionary wing of the ruling class’
‘The Empire’s modern opinion-managers’
2 Patriotic Societies in Bismarckian Germany
The Incubation of Patriotic Societies in Imperial Germany
Patriotic Societies of the First Generation
3 The Formation and Early Development of the Pan-German League, 1886–1902
The General German League, 1886–93
The Pan-German League: Consolidation, Expansion, and Competition, 1894–9
The Development of a National Opposition, 1899–1902
5 Social Foundations of Ideology
The Pan-German League: a Social Profile
Custodians of Culture and Authority
Toward a Social Psychology of Radical Nationalism
The Pan-German League in the East and South
8 Social Experience in a ‘German-National Public Realm’
Spontaneity and Structure in the Local Chapters
Private Virtue and the German-National Public Realm
The Public Obligations of Patriotism
9 The Scope of the German-National Public Realm
The Pan-German League and Other Patriotic Societies
Patriotic Societies and Other Voluntary Associations
The German-National Public Realm and the Structure of Party Politics
The Growing Rift with the Government
The Financial Consequences of Opposition: the Business of Patriotism
The Ideological Consequences of Opposition: the Embrace of Racist Antisemitism
Prelude: the Crisis in the German Navy League