What was distinctive—and distinctively "modern"—about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois" formation in German public culture, the contributors suggest new ways of interpreting its reformist potential and advance alternative readings of German political history before 1914. While proposing a more measured understanding of Wilhelmine Germany's extraordinarily dynamic society, they also grapple with the ambivalent, cross-cutting nature of German "modernities" and reassess their impact on long-term developments running through the Wilhelmine age.

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Making a Place in the Nation: Meanings of “Citizenship” in Wilhelmine Germany
2. Membership, Organization, and Wilhelmine Modernism: Constructing Economic Democracy through Cooperation
3. “Few better Farmers in Europe”? Productivity, Change, and Modernization in East-Elbian Agriculture, 1870-1913
4. The Wilhelmine Regime and the Problem of Reform: German Debates about Modern Nation-States
5. Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism?
6. Imperialist Socialism of the Chair: Gustav Schmoller and German Weltpolitik, 1897-1905
7. “Our Natural Ally”: Anglo-German Relations and the Contradictory Agendas of Wilhelmine Socialism, 1897-1900
8. The “Malet Incident,” October 1895: A Prelude to the Kaiser's “Krüger Telegram” in the Context of the Anglo-German Imperialist Rivalry
9. Colonial Agitation and the Bismarckian State: The Case of Carl Peters
10. The Law and the Colonial State: Legal Codification versus Practice in a German Colony
11. Max Warburg and German Politics: The Limits of Financial Power in Wilhelmine Germany
12. Continuity and Change in Post-Wilhelmine Germany: From the 1918 Revolution to the Ruhr Crisis
13. A Wilhelmine Legacy? Coudenhove-Kalergi's Pan-Europe and the Crisis of European Modernity, 1922-1932
14. Ideas into Politics: Meanings of “Stasis” in Wilhelmine Germany
Notes on Contributors
List of Publications by Hartmut Pogge Von Strandmann
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