Germany 1916-23: A Revolution in Context

by Klaus Weinhauer (Editor), Anthony McElligott (Editor), Kirsten Heinsohn (Editor)

Overview

Durgaing the last four decades the German Revolution 1918/19 has only attracted little scholarly attention.
This volume offers new cultural historical perspectives, puts this revolution into a wider time frame (1916-23), and coheres around three interlinked propositions: (i) acknowledging that during its initial stage the German Revolution reflected an intense social and political challenge to state authority and its monopoly of physical violence, (ii) it was also replete with »Angst«-ridden wrangling over its longer-term meaning and direction, and (iii) was characterized by competing social movements that tried to cultivate citizenship in a new, unknown state.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837627343
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Series:	Histoire , #60
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Klaus Weinhauer is professor of history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Anthony McElligott is professor of history at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Kirsten Heinsohn is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Inhalt 5
Introduction 7
The Crowd in the German November Revolution 1918 37
"Incapable of Securing Order?" 59
Labour Conflict and Everyday Violence as "Revolution"? 83
Gender and the Imaginary of Revolution in Germany 103
Fear of Revolution 127
German Defeat in World War I, Influenza and Postwar Memory 151
Activist Subjectivities and the Charisma of World Revolution 181
'Moral Power' and Cultural Revolution 205
Simultaneity of the Un-simultaneous 229
Commentary 251
Commentary 257
About the Authors 263