This book fills a huge and longstanding gap in the scholarly literatureavailable for teaching the Second Reich. This highlyillustrated book providesa lively int... » 

This book fills a huge and longstanding gap in the scholarly literatureavailable for teaching the Second Reich. This highlyillustrated book providesa lively introduction to the principal movements in German high culture between1871 and 1918 in the context of imperial society and politics. MatthewJefferies reveals that Germanys Imperial culture was every bit asfascinating as the much better knownWeimar cultureof the 1920s and arguesthat much of what came later has origins in the imperial period. Filling asignificant gap in the current literature this study will appeal to studentsof both German History and German Studies. «