Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914

Mark Hewitson is Professor of German History and Politics and Director of European Social and Political Studies at University College London. His publications include Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820 (2017) and The People's Wars: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888 (2017).

• Introduction: nation, empire, globe; 1. Colonial fantasies and imperialism; 2. Germany looks to the West (and the East); 3. Nationalism and racism; 4. Europe and the crisis of the German state; 5. Weltwirtschaft: industrialization and national competition; 6. A world of enemies? Global empires and European powers; Conclusion: around the world in eighty days.

'In Germany and the Modern World, 1880–1914 Mark Hewitson develops an astutely measured, non-polemical appraisal of the concept of the 'globalized nation' on the eve of the First World War, setting the irreducible Europeanness of Germany's dynamism beside and against the wider overseas expansionism. An authoritative, timely and beautifully executed intervention.' Geoff Eley, University of Michigan