German Professions 1800-1950

ISBN-13: 9780195055962 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 352 str.

Geoffrey Cocks; Konrad H. Jarausch

Opis

The role of the middle class in national development has always been of interest to historians concerned with the "peculiarities" of German history. Recently, the professional sector of the German middle class has come under historical scrutiny as part of a re-examination of those features of German society common to Western industrializing nations. This work provides comprehensive coverage of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany from the point of view of this new field. The contributors discuss the formation and development of such diverse professions as law, medicine, teaching, engineering, social work, and psychology, as well as the special cases of the bureaucracy and the military. They examine such questions as the role of the state in the creation and regulation of professions, the social and political role of various professional groups during the turbulent Weimar and Nazi periods, and the remarkable and troubling institutional continuity of certain professions through the Third Reich and into the postwar republics.

Recenzje

'those contributions which distil the essence of comprehensive and significant studies of the technical-scientific functional élites which expanded under the impact of industrialization are extremely worthwhile' Rüdiger vom Bruch, Humboldt University of Berlin, German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Volume XV, No. 3, November 1993