GER 1790 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Militarism, Authoritarianism, Family Law
Document Summary
German nation state as the glorious culmination of german history. Was the precursor to the third reich. Contradictions and tensions between: authoritarianism vs modernism imperial political structures vs market-oriented industrial capitalism. Militarism and nationalism vs economic and social change traditional view of art vs liberal principles the emergence of modernism and the avant-garde in the arts. 3: militarism and gender, nation, colonialism, and science, culture, art, nation and identity: Constitution: federal empire (consisted of 25 states; prussia was the dominant state) Three class voting system: social and economic change: Population growth, urbanization speeded up (1871: 41 million, 1914: 67. 7 million) Shortage of housing; some social housing projects emerged. 1894: central telephone agency set up in berlin. Post-1890 = second wave of industrialization (new industries emerged; engineering, telephone, cars, and electricity: political structures: Reichstag (parliament; it was elected directly, but had limited power) Bundesrat (the representatives of the individual states) Foreign policy aim; secure germany"s post-1871 position without war.
