Between Reform, Reaction and Resistance

Larry Eugene Jones Professor of History,Canisius College, Buffalo, NY James N Retallack Professor of History, University of Toronto

• German conservatism reconsidered - old problems and new directions, L.E. Jones and J. Retallack; the politics of revival - pietists, aristocrats and the state church in early 19th century Prussia, C. Clark; conservatives and the social question in 19th century Prussia, H. Beck; Victor Aime Huber and the emergence of social conservatism, W. Schwentker; the court Camarilla and the politics of monarchical restoration in Prussia, D.E. Barclay; between economic interests and radical nationalism - attempts to found a new right-wing party in imperial Germany, 1887-94, D. Stegman; anti-semitism, agrarian mobilization and the Conservative Party - radicalism and containment in the founding of the Agrarian League, G. Vascik; the road to Philippi - the Conservative Party and Bethmann Hollweg's "politics of the diagonal", 1909-14, J. Retallack; breakdown or breakthrough? conservatives and the November Revolution, P. Fritzsche; conservatism, national socialism and the cultural crisis of the Weimar Republic, A.E. Steinweis; government without parties - conserative plans for constitutional revision at the end of the Weimar Republic, H. Mommsen; organized rural women and the conservative mobilization of the German countryside in the Weimar Republic, R. Bridenthal; convergence on the right - agrarian elite radicalism and Nazi populism in Pomerania, 1928-33, S. Baranowski; the conservative resistance to Hitler and the fall of the Weimar Republic, 1932-34, T.S. Hamerow; the limits of collaboration - Edgar Jung, Herbert von Bose and the origins of the conservative resistance to Hitler, 1933-34, L.E. Jones.

'The excellent introduction to the book by the two editors gives, as is to be expected, due account of the typologies of German conservatism...as well as its historiography. No less outstanding is the chapter by Christopher M. Clark dealing with the early nineteenth-century Prussian conservatives.'Central European History'...this volume shows that German conservatism is a thriving, exciting field full of outstanding scholarship and wide open to innovative research.'Conference Group on German Politics'... important and scholarly collection of essays on various aspects of German conservatism from the post-Napoleonic era to the collapse of the Third Reich'German History