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The chapter analyzes the place of the German nation in politics and society, particularly nationalist activism and ethnic conflict between Germans, Poles, Danes, and French speakers.
The chapter examines the crisis of the First World War, battlefield action, the war’s impact on patterns of domestic conflict, and the reasons for Germany’s defeat.
The chapter surveys the nationalization of politics after 1890, particularly the impact of naval-building and its financial costs. It also analyzes the patterns of voting behavior.
The chapter focuses on Germany’s international relations, the development of the German army and military policy, the domestic consequences of military policy, and the origins of war in 1914.
This chapter surveys the introduction of new technologies, regional centers of industry, development of business organization, and the broad cultural consequences.
The chapter attends to the ideological foundatons and organization of political power, as well as patterns of parliamentary politics, between 1871 and 1890.
The chapter surveys the growth and consolidation of the Socialist labor movement, its persecution by the state, the ideological problem of revolution, the beginnings of the welfare state.
The chapter analyzes institutional underpinnings of political conflict in civic associations, rural–urban conflict, intra-urban conflict, class relations.
This chapter presents a brief background. It treats the Old Regime in Central Europe, the impact of the French Revolution, the postwar settlement, social and economic change, revolution in 1848, and national unification.