Women in British Public Life, 1914 - 50

Helen Jones

'..Women in British Public Life' is an important addition to the literature that successfully spans the gap between student text and research monograph.' Anne Borsay, University of Wales, Lampeter.

• CONTENTSList if maps VIllList iffiguresList if tablesList if Prussian monarchs .xiList if Prussian heads if state .xiiPreface .xiiiAboutthe contributors .xviIntroduction: Modern Prussia - continuity and changePhilip G. Dwyer 1Conservatives and the monarchy 4-The urban and rural environments 8Religion in state and society 12The state, the army and Prussianism 161. Prussia in history and historiography from the nineteenthto the twentieth centuriesStefan Berger 21Modifying and transforming Prussianism in the Kaiserreich 22Prussian historiography in the Weimar Republic 24-Symbiosis or resistance? Prussian historiography under National Socialism 27The history of Prussia after the end of Prussia: The GDR 29The history of Prussia after the end of Prussia: The FRG 33Prussian history in the reunified Germany since 1990 38PART ONE: CONSERVATIVES AND THE MONARCHY2. Restoration PrussiaThomas Stamm-Kuhlmann .43Defining'Restoration' 4-3Restoration as the programme of a 'party' .46Early anti-revolutionary proclamations 4-8A moderate king, the reform ministers and their adversaries 50Romanticism and Restoration ideology 53The Restoration Party gains ground 56Hunting down the Zeitgeist 59v.xi.xiCONT ENTSTran sforming the military into an instrument of royal prerogative 61Conclusion 623. Revolution and counter-revolution in Prussia, 1840- 50DavidE. Barclay 66The coming of revolution, 1840-48 67The liberal and democratic revolutions, spring - autumn 1848 73Counter-revolution and compromise, spring 1848 - J anuary 1850 79Aftershocks, 1849-50 : .834. T he cha nging concerns of Prussian conservatism, 1830- 1914Hermann Beck 86The theoretical foundations of Prussian conservatism 88The search for a new identity 93The development of conservatism in the empire 97PART T WO: THE UR BAN AND RURAL ENVIRONMENTS5. The Prussian Zollverein and the bid for economic superiorityHans-J oachim Voth 109Launchpad for take-off or precursor of unification? 110German economic development 11 3Prussia's political influence 118Prussia's economic power 120Conclusion 1246. The Prussian labour movement, 1871-1 914Dick Geary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126The nation al context 126Varieties of Prussian labour 129Epilogue: Prussian labour in the Weimar Republic 14·37. Agrarian transform ation and right radicalism: Economics andpolitics in rural Pru ssia, 1830-1 947Shelley Baranowski 146Agricultural change and political mobilization, 1830- 1914- 147War-making, urban priorities and the decline of agrarian influence,1914-33 156Unkept promises: Prussian agriculture from the T hird Reich to theoccupation, 1933- 47 163PART T HREE: RELIGI O N IN STATE AN D SOCIETY8. Religious conflicts and Germa n national identity in Prussia, 1866-1 914·MarjorieLamberti 169Protestant liberals and Catholics in the era of national unification ; .170The Kulturkampf I 74Religious cleavages and antago nisms in public life I78The historical consequences 186VICONTENTS9. Prussian ProtestantismNicholas Hope 188A search for identity and establishment 190A fragile new constitutional ('synodal') church order 195War and peace 199PART FOUR: PRUSSIA, THE STATE AND PRUSSIANISM10. Democratic Prussia in Weimar Germany, 1919-33Hagen Schulze 211The transformation of the pillars of monarchical authority 214The demise of the Prussian state 22511. Prussia's military legacy in Empire, Republic and Reich,1871-1945Dennis Showalter 230A Prussian army or a German one? The imperial years 232The Great War: From spiked helmets to steel helmets 238Weimar and the Prussian military heritage 240The Nazi years: Old wine in a new bottle? 244Conclusion 25112. Prussia, Prussianism and National Socialism, 1933-47Brendan Simms 253National Socialism and Prussianism 254The National Socialist regime and Prussia 261Prussia, Prussianism, resistance and the Allies 266Suggestionsfirfurther reading . . . . . . . . .274Further research possibilities 295Index