Imperial Germany 1871-1918

Volker Berghahn is the Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University where he moved in 1998 from Brown University, after a longer spell of teaching at the University of Warwick in England. The author of more than a dozen books, he has long been interested in the challenges of modern biography. In 1993, he published a study of the industrialist Otto A. Friedrich and his role in the reconstruction of West German industry after 1945. His America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe uses Shepard Stone—renowned journalist, Ford Foundation officer in charge of its European and international programs, and the first director of the Berlin Aspen Institute—as a window to the trans-Atlantic world of American and European intellectuals and scholars, many of whom were associated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom during the Cold War.

Introduction



PART I: ECONOMY



Chapter 1. Economic Sectors and Structural Change

Chapter 2. National and Regional Economic Developments

Chapter 3. The Organization of Industry



PART II: SOCIETY



Chapter 4. Demographic Structure and Development

Chapter 5. Social Stratification and Inequalities

Chapter 6. Women and Men

Chapter 7. Issues of Generation and Socialization

Chapter 8. Minorities and Majorities

Chapter 9. Basic Patterns of Social Inequality and their Milieus



PART III: CULTURE



Chapter 10. High Culture and Popular Culture

Chapter 11. The Sciences and Humanities

Chapter 12. The Press, Its Readerships, and the Role of Intellectuals



PART IV: THE REALM OF POLITICS



Chapter 13. The Constitutional Framework

Chapter 14. Parties and Elections in a Period of Dynamic Change

Chapter 15. Organizations and Movements in the Extraparliamentary Sphere

Chapter 16. Structure and Functional Changes in the Executive Branch

Chapter 17. The Evolution of Domestic Politics, 1871–1914

Chapter 18. Foreign Policy



PART V: WORLD WAR I:



Chapter 19. The July Crisis of 1914

Chapter 20. Strategy, Diplomacy, War Aims As Seen “From Above”

Chapter 21. The World War As Experienced “From Below”

Chapter 22. Military Defeat and the Collapse of the Hohenzollern Monarchy



Bibliography

Index