The German Empire, 1871-1918

Roger Chickering is Professor Emeritus of History at Georgetown University. His publications include The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 3rd ed., 2014).

• Preface; Maps; Abbreviations; Prologue; 1. Building the Nation-State; 2. High Industrialism; 3. Region and Faith; 4. Rural Life; 5. Urban Germany; 6. Social Democracy; 7. Bowling Together; 8. Gender Relations; 9. State and Society in the Era of Bismarck; 10. The National Community; 11. 'Our Misfortune'; 12. Wilhelmine Germany; 13. Global Germany; 14. From War to War; 15. The End of the German Empire; Afterlife; Select Bibliography; Index.

'Roger Chickering presents a general survey on the history of the German Empire which is based on more than forty years of research. His book brilliantly combines this research with the knowledge of the development of the scholarship and the curiosity and openness for new approaches. The result is a Totalgeschichte of the German Empires as a realm of multiple actions and experiences.' Karen Hagemann, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill