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Author: Markus Mösslang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1107170265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Diplomatic reports from the German Empire (Berlin), Baden and Hesse (Darmstadt), Saxony (Dresden), Württemberg (Stuttgart), and Bavaria (Munich).
Author: Markus Mößlang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9781108484961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871-1897 concentrates on Anglo-German history prior to German Weltpolitik. Volume II presents official diplomatic reports from the British embassy at Berlin (German Empire) and from the four independent legations in Darmstadt (Hesse and Baden), Dresden (Saxony), Stuttgart (Württemberg), and Munich (Bavaria) during the years 1884 to 1897. The selection reveals the attitudes and perceptions of British observers in a period of great diplomatic activity and complex Anglo-German relations. The dispatches offer new perspectives on the rise of German colonialism and imperialism, the early years of Wilhelm II's reign, the final years of Bismarck's chancellorship and the New Course under his successor Leo von Caprivi, as well as on the varied British interests in Germany and its regional peculiarities. They also mirror the diplomats' increasing attention to German press coverage of both domestic and foreign affairs, and especially to Anglophobic tendencies in German public opinion.
Author: Markus Mösslang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107170261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →British Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871-1897 concentrates on Anglo-German history prior to German Weltpolitik. The first volume presents official diplomatic reports from the British embassy at Berlin (German Empire) and from the four minor - however still independent - diplomatic missions in Darmstadt (Hesse and Baden), Dresden (Saxony), Stuttgart (Württemberg), and Munich (Bavaria) during the years 1871 to 1883. The selection reveals the attitudes of British observers and their perceptions of a wide variety of political, social and cultural developments in a period of great diplomatic activity and changing Anglo-German relations. The dispatches offer new perspectives on Bismarck's imperial chancellorship, on the integration of the federal states into the new Kaiserreich, and on the varied British interests in Germany and its regional peculiarities. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Gavin Wiens
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-03-28
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 3031228634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a reappraisal of Germany’s military between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the First World War. At its core is the following question: how 'German' was the imperial German army? This army, which emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871, has commonly been seen as the 'school of the nation'. After all – so this argument goes – tens of thousands of young men passed through its ranks each year, with conscripts undergoing an intense program of patriotic education and returning to civilian life as fervent German nationalists and ardent supporters of the German emperor, or Kaiser. This book reexamines this assumption. It does not deny that devotion to the Fatherland and loyalty to the Kaiser were widespread among German soldiers in the decades following unification. It nevertheless shows that the imperial German army was far less homogenous and far more faction-ridden than has hitherto been acknowledged.
Author: James Retallack
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1487527489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the eve of the First World War, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the largest and most powerful socialist party in the world. German Social Democracy through British Eyes examines the SPD's rise using British diplomatic reports from Saxony, the third-largest federal state in Imperial Germany and the cradle of the socialist movement in that country. Rather than focusing on the Anglo-German antagonism leading to the First World War, the book peers into the everyday struggles of German workers to build a political movement and emancipate themselves from the worst features of a modern capitalist system: exploitation, poverty, and injustice. The archival documents, most of which have never been published before, raise the question of how people from one nation view people from another nation. The documents also illuminate political systems, election practices, and anti-democratic strategies at the local and regional levels, allowing readers to test hypotheses derived only from national-level studies. This collection of primary sources shows why, despite the inhospitable environment of German authoritarianism, Saxony and Germany were among the most important incubators of socialism.
Author: Heléna Tóth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1316148041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Württemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848–9 as a European phenomenon with global dimensions. While exile is often presented as an individual challenge, Tóth studies its collective aspects in the realms of the family and of professional and social networks. Exploring the interconnectedness of these areas, she argues that although we often like to sharply distinguish between labor migration and exile, these categories were anything but stable after the revolutions of 1848–9; migration belonged to the personal narrative of the revolution for a broad section of the population. Moreover, discussions about exile and amnesty played a central role in formulating the legacy of the revolutions not only for the émigrés but for their social environment and, ultimately, the governments of the restoration.
Author: James N. Retallack
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 739
ISBN-13: 0199668787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Red Saxony' reappraises Germany's prospects for democratic governance from the mid-19th century to the collapse of the Second Reich, asking: how was Germany governed in the era of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II? How did fear of revolution push liberal and conservative parties together? How did Germany's leaders see their nation's future?
Author: Helen J. Whatmore-Thomson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-08-06
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0198789777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nazi concentration camps were built close to local populations all across Europe. These nearby communities were involved with the camps in a myriad of ways, and after the war, they continued to interact with camp legacies. This study examines locality-camp relationships and how these played out during and after the war.
Author: Sabine Freitag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-12-21
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780521790666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edition consists of official reports sent by British envoys in Germany to the Foreign Office in London. The diversity and number of missions within the German Confederation offers the reader an opportunity for a pluralistic perception of German affairs by several British diplomats. The selection presents their main attitudes to the political, economic, cultural, military, and social situation in the German states. All despatches relevant to this first volume which covers the period 1816-1829 have been transcribed from the original for the first time.
