Germany and 'The West' (eBook)

Riccardo Bavaj is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. His publications include Der Nationalsozialismus: Entstehung, Aufstieg und Herrschaft (2016) and "'The West': A Conceptual Exploration" in European History Online (2011).

Martina Steber is a Research Fellow at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin. Her publications include Ethnische Gewissheiten: Die Ordnung des Regionalen im bayerischen Schwaben vom Kaiserreich bis zum NS-Regime (2010) and Visions of Community in Nazi Germany: Social Engineering and Private Lives, edited with Bernhard Gotto (2014).

Preface

Introduction: Germany and ‘the West’: The Vagaries of a Modern Relationship
Riccardo Bavaj & Martina Steber

PART I: RISES AND SILENCES OF 'THE WEST'

Chapter 1. In Search of ‘the West’: The Language of Political, Social and Cultural Spaces in the Sattelzeit, from about 1770 to the 1830s
Bernhard Struck

Chapter 2. The Kaiserreich and the Kulturländer: Conceptions of the West in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914
Mark Hewitson

Chapter 3. World War I and the Invention of ‘Western Democracy’
Marcus Llanque

Chapter 4. Perceptions of ‘the West’ in Twentieth-Century Germany
Anselm Doering-Manteuffel

PART II: EAST-WEST ENTANGLEMENTS

Chapter 5. Russian and German Ideas of the West in the Long Nineteenth Century: Entanglements of Spatial Identities
Denis Sdvizkov

Chapter 6. ‘Orient’ and ‘Occident’, ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the Discourse of German Orientalists, 1790-1930
Douglas T. McGetchin

Chapter 7. German Jews and the West: Identification, Dissimilation and Marginalization around the Turn of the Century
Stefan Vogt

PART III: LIBERAL AMBIGUITIES AND STRATEGIES OF 'WESTERNIZATION'

Chapter 8. Between ‘East’ and ‘West’? A Liberal Dilemma, 1830-48/49
Benjamin Schröder

Chapter 9. Before ‘the West’: Rudolf von Gneist’s English Utopia
Frank Lorenz Müller

Chapter 10. Weimar and ‘the West’: Liberal Social Thought in Germany, 1914-1933
Austin Harrington

Chapter 11. Germany and ‘Western Democracies’: The Spatialization of Ernst Fraenkel’s Political Thought
Riccardo Bavaj

PART IV: NATIONALIST SELF-CENTEREDNESS AND CONSERVATIVE ADAPTATIONS

Chapter 12. ‘The West’ in German Cultural Criticism during the Long Nineteenth Century
Thomas Rohkrämer

Chapter 13. No Place for ‘the West’: National Socialism and the ‘Defence of Europe’
Philipp Gassert

Chapter 14. ‘The West’, Tocqueville, and West German Conservatism from the 1950s to the 1970s
Martina Steber

PART V: SOCIALISTS BETWEEN 'EAST' AND 'WEST'

Chapter 15. ‘The West’ as a Paradox in German Social Democratic Thought: Britain as Counterfoil and Model, 1871-1945
Stefan Berger

Chapter 16. Bridge over Troubled Waters: German Left-Wing Intellectuals between ‘East’ and ‘West’, 1945-49
Dominik Geppert

Chapter 17. Antipathy and Attraction to the West and Western Consumerism in the German Democratic Republic
Katherine Pence

Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index