This volume analyzes the immediate civilian and military entourage of the last German Kaiser. Its purpose is to lay bare the internal structures which combined to produce the peculiar, and ultimately fatal, decisions taken by Germany's leaders from 1888 to 1918. The declining position of the Prussian nobility and its efforts to save itself, the increasing predominance in high government of the Prussian officer corps and its rigid ethos, the inelasticity of royal bureaucracy, as well as the character of the semi-autocratic Emperor: these cultural and social structures formed an interlocking...
This volume analyzes the immediate civilian and military entourage of the last German Kaiser. Its purpose is to lay bare the internal structures which...
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked by effective civilian institutions, increasingly sought the absolute destruction of its enemies as the only guarantee of the nation's security. So deeply embedded were the assumptions and procedures of this distinctively German military culture that the Army, in its drive to annihilate the enemy military, did not shrink from the utter destruction of civilian property and lives. Carried to its...
In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines ...
"With great intellectual energy and resourcefulness, Hull] has placed a new set of issues on our scholarly agenda. After reading Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815, no one will view this period in quite the same way again." James H. Sheehan, Times Literary Supplement"Hull analyzes the evolving bureaucratic understanding of heterosexuality during the transition from absolutist moral regulation of sexual practices for the public good to the formation of a bourgeois civil society of privacy and property. . . . She] offers a remarkable look at the sexual dimension of the...
"With great intellectual energy and resourcefulness, Hull] has placed a new set of issues on our scholarly agenda. After reading Sexuality, State, an...
The author analyzes the evolving bureaucratic understanding of heterosexuality in the transition from absolutist moral regulation of sexual practices for the public good to the formation of a bourgeois civil society of privacy. She explores the sexual dimension of the liberal social contract.
The author analyzes the evolving bureaucratic understanding of heterosexuality in the transition from absolutist moral regulation of sexual practices ...
