A People's War

Autorentext

Jeffrey R. Smith received his B.A. from Rice University and a Master's and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently Associate Professor of History at Northwestern State University in Louisiana.

Klappentext

This project explores the manner in which one form of political legitimacy came to overtake another, the enfranchisement of the Volk at the expense of monarchy during World War I Germany.

Inhalt

Part 1 Acknowledgements
Part 2 List of Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Introduction: Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War
Chapter 4 The "Festive Year" 1913 and Wilhelmine Patriotic Management
Chapter 5 The Nation on the Street: The Nationalist Crowd and the Austro-Serbian Conflict, July 1914
Chapter 6 The Kaiser and the Crowd: Recasting Images of Authority in August 1914
Chapter 7 A Vernacular War
Chapter 8 Visions of a New Germany
Chapter 9 Enfranchising the Nation
Chapter 10 A People's Revolution
Part 11 Bibliography
Part 12 Index