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National identity and political thought in Germany : Wilhelmine depictions of the French Third Republic, 1890-1914 /

"This study examines the interrelation between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. During the decade or so before the war, the German Empire was challenged openly by both right and left for the first time since...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hewitson, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Oxford [England] ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2000.
Colección:Oxford historical monographs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Germany and the French nation
  • National comparison in the modern age
  • Three types of French nation
  • German depictions of France
  • 2. The german Rechtsstaat and the French political stste
  • Politics and the state
  • Law, legality, and justice
  • The Dreyfus affair
  • 3. The merger od executive and legislative competencies
  • President, Senate, and Assembly
  • Party and faction
  • Bureaucracy and bureaucratization
  • 4. Universal suffrage and the spectre of dictatorship
  • Equality, individualism, and control
  • Competence and corruption
  • caesarism and the danger of collapse
  • Republic faute de mieux
  • 5. German rejection of the French parliamentary republic
  • Diplomats and statemen
  • Conservatives
  • The Centre Party
  • The SPD
  • Liberals
  • 6. Conclusion: Politics and the German nation-state
  • German perceptions of France's political decline
  • Parliamentarism and constitutionalism
  • Lawyers, parties, and politicval regimes
  • National comparison and constitutional crisis
  • Political thought and national identity.