Elections, mass politics, and social change in modern Germany new perspectives
This collection of essays presents the most recent work on Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. The authors - sixteen scholars from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States - consider this problem from novel and so...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This collection of essays presents the most recent work on Germany's stormy and problematic encounter with mass politics from the time of Bismarck to the Nazi era. The authors - sixteen scholars from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States - consider this problem from novel and sometimes surprising viewpoints. The history of elections, narrowly conceived, is abandoned in favor of a broader inquiry into the roots of German political loyalties and their relationship to the historic cleavages of class, gender, language, religion, generation, and locality. The essays not only present archival findings, but also pursue more theoretical or conjectural paradigms and raise new questions. Collectively, the authors explore the twin problems of electoral politics and social dislocation with language that is intentionally familiar, inventive, and allusive all at once - in a sense, reflecting the Germans' own unfinished search for political consensus and social stability. |
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| Beschreibung: | XIII, 430 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0521418461 0-521-41846-1 0521429129 0-521-42912-9 |