Thomas Mergel, Benjamin Ziemann

• Contents: Part I The Emergence of Mass Politics: Giolitti's reform program. An exercise in equilibrium politics, Sándor Agócs; The struggle for women's suffrage in Norway 1855-1913, Ida Blom; Popular Boulangism and the advent of mass politics in France, 1886-90, Patrick H. Hutton; The franchise factor in the rise of the Labour Party, H.C.G. Matthew, R.I. McKibbin and J.A. Kay; The zemstvo and public initiative in late Imperial Russia, Thomas Porter and William Gleason. Part II Parties and Political Cleavages: The kulturkampf and the course of German history, Margaret Lavinia Anderson; Qui ça, Dreyfus? The affair in rural France, Michael Burns; The regenerationist movement in Spain after the disaster of 1898, Joseph Harrison; Class and gender in the making of urban Toryism, 1880-1914, Jon Lawrence; An old church and a new state: Italian anticlericalism 1876-1915, Adrian Lyttelton; Antisemitism as a cultural code: reflections on the history and historiography of antisemitism in Imperial Germany, Shulamit Volkov. Part III National Integration, Nationalist Politics and the State: Symbols of Irish nationalism, Peter Alter; Peasants into Frenchmen? The case of the Flemish in the North of France 1860-1914, T.P Baycroft; 'Casting their gaze more broadly': women's patriotic activism in Imperial Germany, Roger Chickering; Nationalism as reflected in the textbooks of the South Slavs in the 19th century, Charles Jelavich; The faces of anarchy: Lombroso and the politics of criminal science in post-unification Italy, Daniel Pick; The working class and state 'welfare' in Britain 1880-1914, Pat Thane. Part IV Political Elites and Institutions: New legislatures: Germany 1871-1914, David Blackbourn; Jews in German liberal politics: Prague 1880-1914, Gary B. Cohen; Protests from behind the grille: gender and the transformation of Parliament 1867-1918, Claire Eustance; The Italian senate in the era of Giolitti and the House of Lords: some comparative insights, Fran

'All in all the editors provide a knowledgeable and focused introduction into the research on European political and social history up till the First World War... As a tool for undergraduate teaching, and particularly as a reference work of crucial English-language contributions to newer trends in political history, this volume is beneficial.' Der Staat

Thomas Mergel, Benjamin Ziemann

• Contents: Part I The Emergence of Mass Politics: Giolitti's reform program. An exercise in equilibrium politics, Sándor Agócs; The struggle for women's suffrage in Norway 1855-1913, Ida Blom; Popular Boulangism and the advent of mass politics in France, 1886-90, Patrick H. Hutton; The franchise factor in the rise of the Labour Party, H.C.G. Matthew, R.I. McKibbin and J.A. Kay; The zemstvo and public initiative in late Imperial Russia, Thomas Porter and William Gleason. Part II Parties and Political Cleavages: The kulturkampf and the course of German history, Margaret Lavinia Anderson; Qui ça, Dreyfus? The affair in rural France, Michael Burns; The regenerationist movement in Spain after the disaster of 1898, Joseph Harrison; Class and gender in the making of urban Toryism, 1880-1914, Jon Lawrence; An old church and a new state: Italian anticlericalism 1876-1915, Adrian Lyttelton; Antisemitism as a cultural code: reflections on the history and historiography of antisemitism in Imperial Germany, Shulamit Volkov. Part III National Integration, Nationalist Politics and the State: Symbols of Irish nationalism, Peter Alter; Peasants into Frenchmen? The case of the Flemish in the North of France 1860-1914, T.P Baycroft; 'Casting their gaze more broadly': women's patriotic activism in Imperial Germany, Roger Chickering; Nationalism as reflected in the textbooks of the South Slavs in the 19th century, Charles Jelavich; The faces of anarchy: Lombroso and the politics of criminal science in post-unification Italy, Daniel Pick; The working class and state 'welfare' in Britain 1880-1914, Pat Thane. Part IV Political Elites and Institutions: New legislatures: Germany 1871-1914, David Blackbourn; Jews in German liberal politics: Prague 1880-1914, Gary B. Cohen; Protests from behind the grille: gender and the transformation of Parliament 1867-1918, Claire Eustance; The Italian senate in the era of Giolitti and the House of Lords: some comparative insights, Fran

'All in all the editors provide a knowledgeable and focused introduction into the research on European political and social history up till the First World War... As a tool for undergraduate teaching, and particularly as a reference work of crucial English-language contributions to newer trends in political history, this volume is beneficial.' Der Staat

Thomas Mergel, Benjamin Ziemann

• Contents: Part I The Emergence of Mass Politics: Giolitti's reform program. An exercise in equilibrium politics, Sándor Agócs; The struggle for women's suffrage in Norway 1855-1913, Ida Blom; Popular Boulangism and the advent of mass politics in France, 1886-90, Patrick H. Hutton; The franchise factor in the rise of the Labour Party, H.C.G. Matthew, R.I. McKibbin and J.A. Kay; The zemstvo and public initiative in late Imperial Russia, Thomas Porter and William Gleason. Part II Parties and Political Cleavages: The kulturkampf and the course of German history, Margaret Lavinia Anderson; Qui ça, Dreyfus? The affair in rural France, Michael Burns; The regenerationist movement in Spain after the disaster of 1898, Joseph Harrison; Class and gender in the making of urban Toryism, 1880-1914, Jon Lawrence; An old church and a new state: Italian anticlericalism 1876-1915, Adrian Lyttelton; Antisemitism as a cultural code: reflections on the history and historiography of antisemitism in Imperial Germany, Shulamit Volkov. Part III National Integration, Nationalist Politics and the State: Symbols of Irish nationalism, Peter Alter; Peasants into Frenchmen? The case of the Flemish in the North of France 1860-1914, T.P Baycroft; 'Casting their gaze more broadly': women's patriotic activism in Imperial Germany, Roger Chickering; Nationalism as reflected in the textbooks of the South Slavs in the 19th century, Charles Jelavich; The faces of anarchy: Lombroso and the politics of criminal science in post-unification Italy, Daniel Pick; The working class and state 'welfare' in Britain 1880-1914, Pat Thane. Part IV Political Elites and Institutions: New legislatures: Germany 1871-1914, David Blackbourn; Jews in German liberal politics: Prague 1880-1914, Gary B. Cohen; Protests from behind the grille: gender and the transformation of Parliament 1867-1918, Claire Eustance; The Italian senate in the era of Giolitti and the House of Lords: some comparative insights, Fran

'All in all the editors provide a knowledgeable and focused introduction into the research on European political and social history up till the First World War... As a tool for undergraduate teaching, and particularly as a reference work of crucial English-language contributions to newer trends in political history, this volume is beneficial.' Der Staat