Textbook
Contesting the German Empire 1871 - 1918ISBN: 978-1-4051-2997-8
Paperback
256 pages
December 2007, ©2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Offers a historiographical overview, spanning more than a century of works on the German Empire
- Guides readers through the main approaches, from ‘personalist’ to ‘structuralist’ and ‘post-structuralist’
- Presents varying perspectives on gender, cultural history, foreign relations, colonialism, and war
- Explores the controversial historical reputations of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Reflects the wide range of opinions on Imperial Germany held by historians today