German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar : A Contest of Futures (Paperback)

1. Introduction (Geoff Eley, Jennifer Jenkins and Tracie Matysik) 2. Neither Singular nor Alternative: Narratives of Welfare and Modernity in Germany, 1870-1945 Young-Sun Hong (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) 3. What Was German Modernity and When? - Geoff Eley (University of Michigan, USA) 4. Alternative Modernities: Imperial Germany through the Lens of Russia - Annemarie Sammartino (Oberlin College, USA) 5. Elsewhere in Central Europe: Jewish Literature in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy between 'Habsburg Myth' and 'Central Europe Effect' - Scott Spector (University of Michigan, USA) 6. Communism and Colonialism in the Red and Black Atlantic: Toward a Transnational Narrative of German Modernity - Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University, USA) 7. The Racial Economy of Weltpolitik: Imperialist Expansion, Domestic Reform, and War in Pan-German Ideology, 1894-1918 - Dennis Sweeney (University of Alberta, Canada) 8. The Wilhelmine Reform Milieu Reconsidered: The Deutscher Werkbund, the Prussian Commerce Ministry and Germany's Commercial Ambitions - John Maciuika (Baruch College, City University of New York, USA) 9. Prevention, Welfare, and Citizenship: The War on Tuberculosis and Infant Mortality in Germany, 1900-1930 - Larry Frohman (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) 10. Secularism, Subjectivity and Reform: Shifting Variables - Tracie Matysik (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 11. War, Citizenship and the Rhetorics of Sexual Crisis: Reflections on States of Exception in Germany, 1914-1920 - Kathleen Canning (University of Michigan, USA) 12. Anchoring the Nation in the Democratic Form: Weimar Symbolic Politics Beyond the Failure Paradigm - Manuela Achilles (University of Virginia, USA) 13. The Werkbund Exhibition: 'The New Age' of 1932 - Jennifer L. Jenkins (University of Toronto, Canada) 14. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough: Emancipation, Sexuality and Female Political Subjectivity - Marti Lybeck (University of Wisconsin La Crosse, USA) 15. National Socialism and the Limits of 'Modernity' - Mark Roseman (Indiana University, USA) Index