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