This book offers a new approach to the history of the modern state. It concentrates on the eighteenth century and on the cases of Britain and Germany. By using a comparative study of these two states, including Prussia, it deconstructs certain clichés about them and forces us to rethink how to study states in the early modern era.

Rethinking Leviathan: The Eighteenth-Century State in Britain and Germany (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

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This volume compares British and German historiography from the Enlightenment to the middle of the twentieth century. It examines the scope and impact of intellectual transfers and throws light on the power and influence of national traditions. It documents the ways in which the British and German scholarly communities competed with and profited from each other.

British and German Historiography, 1750-1950: Traditions, Perceptions, and Transfers (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

The essays assembled here explore how private law historically helped to maintain, change, or upset inequalities common to all industrialized countries. The book deals with relations between lords and peasants, husbands and wives, masters and servants, landlords and tenants, and producers and consumers.

Private Law and Social Inequality in the Industrial Age: Comparing Legal Cultures in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

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Words, Language & Grammar

This collection of essays traces the nineteenth-century origins of modern internationalism and the emergence of global society. With contributions from distinguished scholars, both American and European, the book offers a fresh approach to the study of international history.

The Mechanics of Internationalism: Culture, Society, and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

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This collection of essays examines the similarities and differences between medieval England and Germany at a period of great change in almost all areas of life. It asks a number of fundamental questions which highlight the foundations of a rich common European heritage. What was it that made life in the twelfth century more varied, less peaceful, and less secure than before? How can the parallel developments, changes, and transformations that took place in Latin Europe in the High Middle Ages be related to each other? What answers were found to the challenges of the age in England and Germany?

England and Germany in the High Middle Ages: In Honour of Karl J. Leyser (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

'Monarchy and Religion' explores the religious dimension of kingship in 18th century Europe. By comparing the British, French, Russian, and some of the German monarchies it challenges assumptions about the desaralization of royal power during this period.

Monarchy and Religion: The Transformation of Royal Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

Public protest marches and meetings have become a global and transnational phenomenon. Images of Asian Muslims protesting against cartoons published by a Danish newspaper are aired into living rooms in Europe and America. Coordinated mass demonstrations on different continents voice demands to 'Make Poverty History' or to stop the war against Iraq, while the process of economic globalization has created an equally transnational network of critics.Given the worldwide adoption of Western-style street processions and meetings with their familiar symbols and rituals, it is easily forgotten that this form of organized public protest only developed in the nineteenth century and was long regarded with intense suspicion. Until well after the Second World War participating in street processions and meetings was viewed by the elites as a challenge to their predominant role, and the protestors were regarded as unrespectable or worse.This volume examines the evolution of the protest march and its subsequent adaptation and use by different groups, such as nationalists, the labour movements, suffragettes, Communists, fascists, and peace and civil rights activists in Europe and the United States.The case studies focus especially on the use of symbols, rituals, traditions, public spaces and symbolic places, the interaction between the marchers, the state, and the public, the use of the media and the question of violence, as well as the success and legacy of the marches. Three further essays introduce the reader to the most important figures, questions, and the methodology of protest march studies in social psychology, sociology, and geography.

The Street as Stage: Protest Marches and Public Rallies since the Nineteenth Century (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

This volume brings together the most recent research on European aristocracies in the first half of the twentieth century. An international array of social and political historians analyses the aristocracies of eleven countries at a particularly testing time: the interwar years. After the First World War aristocrats were confronted with revolutions, republics, and an influx of 'Bolshevist' ideas. Debates about a new order in which aristocrats would play a leading part took place in all countries after 1918. The Mussolini model, in particular, seemed an ideal solution and had an impact on aristocrats all over Europe. Here the exchange of ideas between networks of related aristocratic families played a part in spreading pro-fascist ideas. Anti-Semitism, anti-Bolshevism, and a belief in charismatic leadership also led to admiration of leaders such as Horthy and Franco. In all countries radical right-wing movements tried to recruit aristocrats as symbolic if not strategic figureheads. Is it possible, therefore, to speak of a last flourishing of the aristocracy in countries where fascist or authoritarian regimes were successful? Or are we falling for a left-wing conspiracy theory by overestimating the aristocracy's political prowess and failing to see that they often stood as a conservative bulwark against the radical right? The book shows that if radical right-wing parties could not offer new avenues to power centres, aristocrats, despite a natural predisposition, were not tempted to join, or soon lost interest. Yet their flirtations and short-term entanglements with these movements show that they played a destructive role in the great crisis years of parliamentarism.

European Aristocracies and the Radical Right, 1918-1939 (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

This volume explores the history of nineteenth-century diplomacy and in a new and innovative way. Drawing on the diplomats' many and varied encounters between their own individual and professional circles and the "wider world," this study discusses diplomacy as a part of the cultural history of politics. While many modern works on foreign affairs marginalize the nature of diplomatic practice, this volume links form and content, presenting diplomacy as both a real world experience and a structural element in international relations. All sixteen essays share a common interest in the interdependencies between individual personalities, experiences, and structural context and their relevance to the conduct of diplomacy and, ultimately, the outcome of diplomatic events. Among the topics covered are the social history and the operating norms of the diplomatic establishment, the influence of the public sphere on the conduct of diplomacy, the role of etiquette and protocol in diplomatic encounters, and the impact of traditions and ideology, and administrative regulations and local necessities on diplomatic practice. The case studies illustrate the close links between official and sometimes not so official interstate relations in the period between the Congress of Vienna and the outbreak of the First World War. The way in which the transformation of the political landscape affected political decision-making is discussed not only for the European great powers, but also as an international and global phenomenon. The comparative approach of this volume permits the inclusion of secondary European states such as Switzerland and non-European states in America, Asia, and North Africa. Diplomacy is thus presented as a transnational phenomenon in its own right.

The Diplomats' World: The Cultural History of Diplomacy, 1815-1914 (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

This collection of essays sheds new light on Anglo-German relations during the turbulent decades before the outbreak of the Great War. Written by leading historians, the book demonstrates that Anglo-German relations before 1914 were characterized not only by rivalry and antagonism, but also by a remarkable degree of mutual admiration and cultural cross-fertilization.

Wilhelmine Germany and Edwardian Britain: Essays on Cultural Affinity (Studies of the German Historical Institute, London)

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