03-Wilhelmine Germany

LECTURE 03 A: Wilhelmine Era-Mann-The Subject 

• Lecture 03 A, B, and C Listening Guide
• [Pages 0 to 19]

LECTURE 03 B: Wilhelmine Era-Mann-The Subject 

• Lecture 03 A, B, and C Listening Guide
• [Pages 20 to 170]  

LECTURE 03 C: Wilhelmine Era-Mann-The Subject 

• Lecture 03 A, B, and C Listening Guide
• [Pages 170(but actually,250)to End]

BACKGROUND SURVEY MATERIALS

• Craig:
• 224-239; 247-250 Wilhelm II; foreign policy shift
• 266-272 German Socialism; divisions within left
• Berghahn:
• 1-10 Industrialization
• 15-18 German Socialism
• 22-28 Wilhelmine Political Parties
• 29-37 Wilhelm II; foreign Policy; path to war

REQUIRED BACKGROUND THEMATIC MATERIALS

• Mosse, Nationalization of the Masses, Chs. 1-2  George L. Mosse, The Nationalization of the Masses: Political Symbolism and Mass Movements in Germany from the Napoleonic Wars Through the Third Reich (NY: Howard Fertig, 1975)
• Stern, Cultural Despair, Intro Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961)
• Mosse, Crisis of German Ideology, Intro. George L. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich (NY: Schocken, 1981)

REQUIRED PRIMARY READINGS 

• Heinrich Mann, The Subject (Der Untertan) [Also published in English as The Patrioteer, The Man of Straw, and the Loyal Subject)

MAIN THEMES FOR CONSIDERATION

• Search for Authority
• Search for Community/Unity
• Anti-Semitism
• Rejection of Modernity
• Militarization of Society/Culture
• Cult of the Emperor
• Liberal/Socialist Critique or Opposition
• Anti-Liberalism/Socialism
• “Romantic” National Culture
• War Enthusiasm

FORUM DISCUSSION 2/7/2013

IMAGES

• Gründerzeit Images 
• Volkish Images
• Untertan Images

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS

• Brief Summary of Heinrich Mann's Life and Career