In Search of a Liberal Germany

K H Jarausch

'This volume is handsomely produced, is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, and will stimulate further research into the search for a liberal Germany.'Perspectives on Political Science

• From the household economy to "Rational Agriculture" - the establishment of Liberal ideas in German agricultural thought, Marion Gray; liberalism, religious dissent and women's rights - Louise Dittmar's writings from the 1840s, Dagmar Herzong; liberalism, modernization and the social question in the Kingdom of Saxony, 1830-90, Richard J. Bazillion; towards a social history of liberalism, in Berlin, 1815-48, Jonathan Knudsen; arms and the people - the "Burgerwehr" in the Unterfranken in 1848 and 1849, James F. Harris; associational life and the development of liberalism in Hanover, 1848-66, Michael John; notable politics, the crisis of German liberalism and the electoral transition of the 1890s, Geoff Eley; German liberalism in the second empire, 1871-1914, Dieter Langewiesche; German liberals and the genesis of the German Association Law of 1908, Eleanor L.Turk; the decline of liberal professionalism - reflections on the social erosion of German liberalism, 1867-1933, Konrad H.Jarausch; German liberalism and the alienation of the younger generation in the Weimar Republic, Larry Eugene Jones; languages of liberalism - liberal political discourse in the Weimar Republic, Thomas Childers; symbols of continuity and change in poswar German liberalism - Wolfgang Haussmann and Hildergard Hamm-Brucher, Rebecca Boehling; Ludwing Erhard and German liberalism - an ambivalent relationship?, A.J.Nicholls.