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5 – Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism?

  • Matthew Jefferies
© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Acknowledgments x
  5. Introduction 1
  6. 1 – Making a Place in the Nation Meanings of “Citizenship” in Wilhelmine Germany 16
  7. 2 – Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism: Constructing Economic Democracy through Cooperation 34
  8. 3 – “Few better farmers in Europe”? Productivity, Change, and Modernization in East-Elbian Agriculture 1870-1913 51
  9. 4 – The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform: German Debates about Modern Nation-States 73
  10. 5 – Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism? 91
  11. 6 – Imperialist Socialism of the Chair: Gustav Schmoller and German Weltpolitik, 1897-1905 107
  12. 7 – “Our natural ally” Anglo-German Relations and the Contradictory Agendas of Wilhelmine Socialism, 1897-1900 123
  13. 8 – The “Malet Incident,” October 1895 A Prelude to the Kaiser’s “Krüger Telegram” in the Context of the Anglo-German Imperialist Rivalry 138
  14. 9 – Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State: The Case of Carl Peters 154
  15. 10 – The Law and the Colonial State: Legal Codification versus Practice in a German Colony 171
  16. 11 – Max Warburg and German Politics: The Limits of Financial Power in Wilhelmine Germany 185
  17. 12 – Continuity and Change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany: From the 1918 Revolution to the Ruhr Crisis 202
  18. 13 – A Wilhelmine Legacy? Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-Europe and the Crisis of European Modernity, 1922-1932 219
  19. 14 – Ideas into Politics: Meanings of “Stasis” in Wilhelmine Germany 235
  20. Notes on Contributors 253
  21. Publications by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann 257
  22. Index 261
Wilhelminism and Its Legacies
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