This companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction - Matthew Jefferies
• PART I: STATE AND MONARCHY
• 1 Imperial Governance - Katharine Anne Lerman
• 2 Prussian Governance - Hartwin Spenkuch
• 3 The German Monarchies - Frank Lorenz Müller
• PART II: POLITICS AND SOCIETY
• 4 Elections - Thomas Kühne
• 5 Liberalism - Eric Kurlander
• 6 Conservatism - Oded Heilbronner
• 7 Nationalism - Mark Hewitson
• 8 Antisemitism - Lars Fischer
• 9 Political Catholicism - Jeffrey T. Zalar
• 10 Socialism - Stefan Berger and Stefan Braun
• PART III: CULTURE AND IDENTITY
• 11 Particularism and Localism - Jennifer Jenkins
• 12 Popular Culture - Kaspar Maase
• 13 Gender - Ann Taylor Allen
• 14 Religion - James E. Bjork
• 15 Class - Dennis Sweeney
• PART IV: ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT
• 16 Trade Policy and Globalization - Cornelius Torp
• 17 Agricultural Labour - Simon Constantine
• 18 The Environment and Environmentalism - Thomas Rohkrämer
• 19 Population: Demography and Mobility - Steve Hochstadt
• PART V: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, MILITARISM AND WAR
• 20 International Relations - Andreas Rose
• 21 Militarism - Benjamin Ziemann
• 22 The Army - William Mulligan
• 23 The Navy and the Sea - Jan Rüger
• 24 Germany and the Origins of the First World War - Annika Mombauer
• 25 Colonialism and Genocide - Jürgen Zimmerer