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The Short Oxford History of Germany

Imperial Germany 18711918

The Short Oxford History of Germany

Edited by James Retallack

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Imperial Germany, 18711918 / edited by James Retallack.

p. cm.(Short Oxford history of Germany)

Includes index.

ISBN 9780199204878ISBN 9780199204885 1. GermanyHistory18711918.

I. Retallack, James N.

DD220.I645 2008

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The Short Oxford History of Germany series provides a concise, readable, and authoritative point of entry for the history of Germany, from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the present day. The series is divided into five volumes, each one dealing with a distinct phase in the countrys history. The first two volumes take the reader from the dying days of the Holy Roman Empire, through unification under Prussian leadership in 1871, to the collapse of the Wilhelmine Reich at the end of the First World War. The subsequent three volumes then focus on the Weimar period from 1919 to 1933; the calamitous years of the Third Reich and the Second World War; and Germany since 1945, first as two separate states on the front line of the Cold War and later as a reunified country at the heart of Europe.

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Contents

James Retallack

Katharine Anne Lerman

Mark Hewitson

Brett Fairbairn

Christopher Clark

Celia Applegate

Angelika Schaser

Edward Ross Dickinson

Thomas Khne

Roger Chickering

Sebastian Conrad

Jeffrey Verhey

James Retallack

Creation of the German Empire, 18661871

The German Empire, 18711918

Germany and Europe in the First World War

( are James Retallack / German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, 2007.)

CELIA APPLEGATE is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohns Revival of the St Matthew Passion (Ithaca, NY, and London, 2005), and A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat (Berkeley, 1990). She is co-editor of Music and German National Identity (Chicago, 2002) with Pamela Potter. She currently serves as vice-president of the German Studies Association.

ROGER CHICKERING is Professor of History in the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. His publications include Imperial Germany and a World without War: The Peace Movement and German Society, 18921914 (Princeton, 1975); We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 18861914 (London, 1984); Karl Lamprecht: A German Academic Life (18561915) (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1993); Imperial Germany and the Great War, 19141918 (Cambridge, 1998, 2nd edn 2004), and The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 19141918 (Cambridge, 2007). He is currently undertaking a project on the mobilization of agriculture in modern German history.

CHRISTOPHER CLARK is Reader in Modern European History at St Catharines College, University of Cambridge. His most recent publication is Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 16001947 (Cambridge, MA, 2006). He is also the author of Kaiser Wilhelm II (Harlow and New York, 2000); Politics of Conversion: Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia 17281941 (Oxford and New York, 1995); and co-editor of Culture Wars: CatholicSecular Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge, 2003) with Wolfram Kaiser. His current writing project has the working title The Age of Circulation: Europe after 1848.

SEBASTIAN CONRAD is Professor of Modern History at the European University Institute, Florence. His publications include Globalisierung und Nation im Deutschen Kaiserreich (Munich, 2006) and several edited works, among them Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s1930s (New York, 2007) with Dominic Sachsenmaier; Globalgeschichte. Theorien, Anstze, Themen (Frankfurt a.M., 2007) with Andreas Eckert and Ulrike Freitag; Beyond Hegemony? Europe and the Politics of Non-Western Elites, 19001930, thematic issue of the Journal of Modern European History 4 (2) (2006); and Das Kaiserreich transnational. Deutschland in der Welt, 18711914 (Gttingen, 2006) with Jrgen Osterhammel.

EDWARD ROSS DICKINSON is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Davis. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991, after which he taught for nine years at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has published on German child welfare policy, sex reform and Christian moral reform in Germany, the German womens movements, social reform and eugenics, the history of sexuality in modern Germany, and the policing of sex crimes in Germany. He is currently working on a project on the Alps.

BRETT FAIRBAIRN is Professor and Head of the Department of History and Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan. He conducts research and teaches in the fields of the history of democracy and social movements in Germany, North America, and worldwide, as well as the interdisciplinary study of co-operatives and social economy. His publications in the area of German history include