Introduction

PART I: ECONOMY

Chapter 1. Economic Sectors and Structural Change
Chapter 2. National and Regional Economic Developments
Chapter 3. The Organization of Industry

PART II: SOCIETY

Chapter 4. Demographic Structure and Development
Chapter 5. Social Stratification and Inequalities
Chapter 6. Women and Men
Chapter 7. Issues of Generation and Socialization
Chapter 8. Minorities and Majorities
Chapter 9. Basic Patterns of Social Inequality and their Milieus

PART III: CULTURE

Chapter 10. High Culture and Popular Culture
Chapter 11. The Sciences and Humanities
Chapter 12. The Press, Its Readerships, and the Role of Intellectuals

PART IV: THE REALM OF POLITICS

Chapter 13. The Constitutional Framework
Chapter 14. Parties and Elections in a Period of Dynamic Change
Chapter 15. Organizations and Movements in the Extraparliamentary Sphere
Chapter 16. Structure and Functional Changes in the Executive Branch
Chapter 17. The Evolution of Domestic Politics, 1871-1914
Chapter 18. Foreign Policy

PART V: WORLD WAR I:

Chapter 19. The July Crisis of 1914
Chapter 20. Strategy, Diplomacy, War Aims As Seen "From Above"
Chapter 21. The World War As Experienced "From Below"
Chapter 22. Military Defeat and the Collapse of the Hohenzollern Monarchy

Bibliography
Index

A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras. The statistical appendix contains a wide range of social, economic and political data. Written with the English-speaking student in mind, this book is likely to become a widely used text for this period, incorporating as it does twenty years of further research on the German Empire since the appearance of Hans-Ulrich Wehler's classic work.

Volker Berghahn is the Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University where he moved in 1998 from Brown University, after a longer spell of teaching at the University of Warwick in England. The author of more than a dozen books, he has long been interested in the challenges of modern biography. In 1993, he published a study of the industrialist Otto A. Friedrich and his role in the reconstruction of West German industry after 1945. His America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe uses Shepard Stone-renowned journalist, Ford Foundation officer in charge of its European and international programs, and the first director of the Berlin Aspen Institute-as a window to the trans-Atlantic world of American and European intellectuals and scholars, many of whom were associated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom during the Cold War.