The Path to Christian Democracy : German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer /

From the time of Bismarck's great rival Ludwig Windthorst to that of the first post-World War II Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, the Catholic community in Germany took a distinctive historical path. Although it was by no means free of authoritarian components, it was at times the most democratic p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cary, Noel D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Edición:Reprint 2014
Temas:
Catholics.
Christen-democratie.
Christian democracy.
Christian democratic parties.
Politieke partijen.
Politik.
Christian democratic parties > Germany > History.
Christianity and politics > Catholic Church > History.
HISTORY / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties.
RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Another Sonderweg?
  • PART I. The Center Party and Interdenominationalism in the Kaiserreich, 1870-1917
  • 1. The Enemy of the State
  • 2. Labor, Party, and Zentrumsstreit
  • PART II. Initiatives and Inertia, 1917-1922
  • 3. Defeat, Revolution, Reorientation
  • 4. The Essen Program and Its Aftermath
  • PART III. From Weimar to Hitler, 1923-1933
  • 5. Political Mavericks and Catholic Consciousness
  • 6. The Fall of the Tower
  • PART IV. Reshaping Party Politics, 1945-1957
  • 7. Catholics at the Zero Hour
  • 8. The CDU of Konrad Adenauer
  • 9. The CDU and Jakob Kaiser
  • 10. The Center Party and Karl Spiecker
  • 11. The Fusion Fiasco
  • 12. Helene Wessel and the Christian Opposition
  • Epilogue: The End of Weltanschauung?
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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