James N. Retallack Boeken

This lively and concise new book uses a dual approach to introduce students and non-specialists to Wilhelmine Germany (1888-1918). It surveys social, economic, political, cultural and diplomatic developments in an age of tumultuous upheaval. It also explains why historians have so often reversed the interpretative 'switches' guiding research on this period. By highlighting the breadth of historical change under Wilhelm II and the evolution of opposing viewpoints about its significance, this book provides easy access to an epoch - and a debate - characterised more by controversy than consensus.

Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of democratization. Social democratization could not be stopped, but political democratization was opposed by many members of the German bourgeoisie. Frightened by the electoral success of the Social Democrats after 1871, anti-democrats deployed many strategies that flew in the face of electoral fairness. They battled socialists, liberals, and Jews at election time, but they also strove to rewrite the electoral rules of the game. Using a regional lens to rethink older assumptions about Germany's changing political culture, this volume focuses as much on contemporary Germans' perceptions of electoral fairness as on their experiences of voting. It devotes special attention to various semi-democratic voting systems whereby a general and equal suffrage (for the Reichstag) was combined with limited and unequal ones for local and regional parliaments. For the first time, democratization at all three tiers of governance and their reciprocal effects are considered together

Twenty scholars explore the theory and practice of regional history in one of Germany's most under-researched but conflict-ridden territories

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Das Buch betrachtet Sachsen in historisch-vergleichender Perspektive. Von Übersee aus gesehen ist Sachsen zunächst nicht mehr als ein Punkt auf der Weltkarte. Doch zur Kraft des Regionalen in der Geschichte gehört es, daß von solchen Punkten Weltwirkung ausgehen kann, ja daß diese Punkte selbst wieder auf höchst komplexe Weise in 'Welt', in größere gesellschaftliche Einheiten, eingebunden sind. Die Beiträge greifen das Thema des politischen Bedeutungsverlustes Sachsens und der Aufwertung von Wirtschaft und Kultur als Wirkungsfelder sächsischer Selbstbehauptung auf. Sie untersuchen, wie sich hier landespatriotische, nationale und in der frühen Sozialdemokratie internationalistische und pazifistische Identitäten herausbildeten. Die Aufsätze verorten Sachsen in Deutschland, in der deutschen Geschichte und in der deutschen Historiographie. Sie zeigen, daß die Topographien des Lokalismus, des Regionalismus und des Nationalismus nicht nur politisch und geographisch, sondern auch sozial und kulturell geprägt waren.