Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I THE PLACE OF IMPERIAL GERMANY IN GERMAN HISTORY
7. Chapter 1 When the Sonderweg Debate Left Us 21
8. Chapter 2 The Impossible Vanishing Point: Societal Differentiation in Imperial Germany 37
9. Chapter 3 Was the German Empire a Sovereign State? 51
10. Chapter 4 Theories of Nationalism and the Critical Approach to German History 67
11. Part II POLITICS, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY
12. Chapter 5 The Authoritarian State and the Political Mass Market 83
13. Chapter 6 Using Violence to Govern: The German Empire and the French Third Republic 97
14. Chapter 7 Women’s Suffrage and Antifeminism as a Litmus Test of Modernizing Societies: A Western European Comparison 107
15. Chapter 8 Germany in the Age of Culture Wars 125
16. Chapter 9 Their Favorite Enemy: German Social Historians and the Prussian Nobility 141
17. Chapter 10 A Difficult Relationship: Social History and the Bourgeoisie 157
18. Chapter 11 Cultural Nationalism and Beyond: Musical Performances in Imperial Germany 173
19. Part III WAR AND VIOLENCE
20. Chapter 12 1914–1945: A Second Thirty Years War? Advantages and Disadvantages of an Interpretive Category 189
21. Chapter 13 The Enduring Charm of the Great War: Some Reflections on Methodological Issues 201
22. Chapter 14 The First World War and Military Culture: Continuity and Change in Germany and Italy 213
23. Chapter 15 A German Way of War? Narratives of German Militarism and Maritime Warfare in World War I 227
24. Chapter 16 German War Crimes 1914 and 1941 The Question of Continuity 239
25. Part IV THE GERMAN EMPIRE IN THE WORLD
26. Chapter 17 From the Periphery to the Center: On the Significance of Colonialism for the German Empire 253
27. Chapter 18 The Kaiserreich as a Society of Migration 267
28. Chapter 19 Wilhelmine Nationalism in Global Contexts: Mobility, Race, and Global Consciousness 281
29. Chapter 20 Imperial Germany under Globalization 297
30. Chapter 21 German Industry and American Big Business, 1900–1914 313
31. Select Bibliography 325
32. Notes on Contributors 337
33. Subject Index 341
34. Index of Persons 345