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Decades of Reconstruction : Postwar Societies, State-building, and International Relations from the Seven Years' War to the Cold War
\"As wars and other conflicts increase on a worldwide scale, the alleged 'new wars' of the present day have taught that military victory does not necessarily result in a sustained state of peace. Rather, societies in conflict experience a 'status mixtus' - a transformative period that includes substantial changes in economy, politics, society and culture. Focusing on these decades of reconstruction in Europe and North America, this book examines the transformation of state systems, international relations, and normative principles in international comparison. By putting the postwar decade after 1945 into a long-term historical perspective, the chapters illuminate new patterns of transition between war and peace from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Experts in the field show that states and societies are never restituted from a 'zero hour'. They also demonstrate that foreign and domestic policy are intermixed before and after peace breaks out.\"--Back cover.
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From Collaboration to Resistance: Politics, Experience, and Memory of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Southern Germany
Travelers strolling through Stuttgart's Old Town who pause before Württemberg's royal residence can hardly fail to notice the Victory Column. Thirty meters high, it towers over the square and proclaims Crown Prince Wilhelm's victories against the armies of Napoleon in 1814. Erected in 1841, the Victory Column marked the Silver Jubilee of Wilhelm's reign, by that time a much-loved regent. Eight years earlier, at the twentieth anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, the Bavarian king Ludwig I dedicated a memorial to the dead of the Russian Campaign. Evidently cast from the metal of French cannons, the massive obelisk dominates a crossroads in Munich—roads named after victorious battles fought during the Wars of Liberation. With their military campaigns engraved in stone, the two monarchies, Württemberg and Bavaria, demonstrated their zealous opposition to the French Emperor.
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Women’s Suffrage and Antifeminism as a Litmus Test of Modernizing Societies
How “modern” was the German Empire in comparison to other European countries? How willing was it to undertake necessary reforms? The answer to these questions has changed considerably during the last few years. While some authors still include the German Empire as part of Europe’s “conservative east,”¹ from the perspective of comparative social history the GermanSonderweghas merged into the variety of European paths of development.² Although Hans-Ulrich Wehler still holds with verve to his stimulating formula of the GermanSonderweg, he has acknowledged considerable modernizing successes during the German Empire. Nevertheless, the doyen of German social history attests
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Der Mythos vom Befreiungskrieg: Frankreichs Krieg und der deutsche Süden. Alltag - Wahrnehmung - Deutung, 1792-1814
Not the least of Ute Planert's achievements in her very long but enthralling book is to show how this emancipatory mission was doomed from the start. The crucial passage is reached on page 134 where she demonstrates that even those Germans who entertained some sympathy for the revolutionary programme were immediately alienated by the actions of the French soldiers. Of the many illustrations, the most poignant is the story of the young man who donned his best suit before sallying forth to greet his liberators. But before he could make his speech of welcome, they stripped off his suit, taking his watch and wallet into the bargain. He escaped in his underwear, sadder but wiser.
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Imperial Germany revisited
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.
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