James Retallack
Katharine Anne Lerman
The task of national consolidation
The end of the Bismarckian era
Mark Hewitson
Social traditions and conflicts in a nervous age
World empires and European politics
Imperial Germany’s place in history
3 Economic and social developments
Brett Fairbairn
From agrarian to industrial state
Big business, technology, and the state
4 Religion and confessional conflict
Christopher Clark
Religion, secularization, modernization
Celia Applegate
Institutions of the cultural world
Serious art and the art establishment
German Modernism and the avant-garde
Angelika Schaser
The gendered distribution of life’s opportunities
The women’s movement and anti-feminism
Nationalism, ‘high politics’, and war
Edward Ross Dickinson
The range and diversity of reform
The potentials and dynamics of bourgeois reform
Unity in diversity: assumptions, orientations, strategies
8 Political culture and democratization
Thomas Kühne
The authoritarian state and its historians
Nation building and social pillarization
New departures at the fin de siècle
9 Militarism and radical nationalism
Roger Chickering
War and the discourse of politics
The national opposition and the military
Sebastian Conrad
‘World politics’, world markets, mobility
Subjectivities, representations, knowledge
Jeffrey Verhey
The spirit of 1914: public opinion in July and August
Propaganda: giving meaning to the war
Making peace, making revolution
James Retallack