The German Empire: an Empire?

Dickinson, Edward Ross

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“…National unification thus took the form of empire building (Berger 2015; Dickinson 2008; Ther 2004). The country's national borders, as they crystallized in the early 1870s, reflected this fact.…”

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The Imperial Origins ofNation‐States: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Genealogy of Totalitarianism¹

Leanza

2022

Sociological Forum

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Against the backdrop of World War II, Hannah Arendt explores the origins of totalitarian rule, arguing that they date back to as early as the late nineteenth century. Alongside anti‐Semitism, overseas colonialism and pan‐nationalism paved the way for the totalitarian regimes that crystallized a few decades later by weakening the system of nation‐states from within. Using the example of Germany, I will argue in this article that we need to revise Arendt's narrative. It focuses too narrowly on how nationalism turned into its categorical opposite, imperialism, neglecting the complementary dynamics of how empire facilitated the nation‐state. Only then can we acknowledge the deep rupture that World War I brought about when it created in its wake a dynamic that culminated in the destruction of European nation‐states.

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The Imperial Origins ofNation‐States: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Genealogy of Totalitarianism¹

Leanza

2022

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“…In order to understand the challenge the German monarchy confronted, it helps to recall that the German Empire was not only called an Empire but, as recent historical research has stressed, also on many respects carried the traits of an empire. 3 The diversity of different minorities posed considerable obstacles to national integration. The issue of national loyalty was fiercely debated in the national discourse of Imperial Germany, especially with regard to the substantial Polish minority.…”

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Loss of Control: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mass Media, and the National Identity of the Second German Reich

Kohlrausch

2017

Transnational Histories of the 'Royal Nation'

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The idea that particular political systems fitted specific nations or even expressed their character traits was well established around 1900. What did this idea imply for the institution of the monarchy in a period when both the monarchy and the idea of the nation were being redefined? This chapter will connect both processes for Germany. I will argue that only by highlighting the critical role mass media played as an 'ingredient' of an imagined new German monarchy, and as a means of comparing different systems of government in Europe, may we understand the relation between national identity and monarchy. Therefore, this chapter will analyze how mediatization created new concepts of relating the monarch and the nation, but also created new expectations that the monarchy was unable to meet. Though the use of mass media helps to explain the dynamic redefinition of the relation between the monarchy and the nation in Germany, we cannot explain M. Kohlrausch (*)

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“… 2. There has been a considerable amount of scholarship, since Sheehan’s (1981) article, on rethinking Germany in the context of its overseas colonial empire, as well as reinterpreting its actions ‘internally’ as colonial (see, for example, Conrad, 2013; Dickinson, 2008; Penny, 2008; Steinmetz, 2007; Zimmerman, 2010). Interestingly, while much of this literature seeks to place Germany in a global context – that is, to examine the history of German imperialism alongside histories of other European colonial powers or then examine the ways in which German consciousness may have been shaped in relation to its colonies – there is still little consideration of how the idea of the German nation-state might itself be rethought as a consequence of taking seriously its imperial activities.…”

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Comparative Historical Sociology and the State: Problems of Method

Bhambra

2016

Cultural Sociology

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Historical sociology can be understood both as a specific sub-field of sociology and as providing general conceptual underpinnings of the discipline, to the extent that it provides an understanding of the specificity of the modern state and the perceived emergence of modernity within Europe. The association of modernity with Europe (and with a European history limited to the self-identified boundaries of the continent) is commonplace and pervasive within the social sciences and humanities. What such an understanding fails to take into consideration, however, are the connections between Europe and the rest of the world that constitute the broader context for the emergence of what is understood to be the modern world and its institutions, such as the state and market. In this article, I suggest that integral to this misunderstanding, and its reproduction over time, is the methodology of comparative historical sociology as represented by ideal types. In contrast, I argue for ‘connected sociologies’ as a more appropriate way to understand our shared past and its continuing impact upon the present. I examine these issues in the context of historical sociological understandings of nation-state formation.

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The German Empire: an Empire?

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The Imperial Origins ofNation‐States: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Genealogy of Totalitarianism¹

The Imperial Origins ofNation‐States: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Genealogy of Totalitarianism¹

Loss of Control: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mass Media, and the National Identity of the Second German Reich

Comparative Historical Sociology and the State: Problems of Method

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The Imperial Origins ofNation‐States: Revisiting Hannah Arendt's Genealogy of Totalitarianism1

Loss of Control: Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mass Media, and the National Identity of the Second German Reich

Comparative Historical Sociology and the State: Problems of Method

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