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The Imperial German Army between Kaiser and Kingmonarchy, nation-building, and war, 1866-1918 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Imperial German Army between Kaiser and Kingby Gavin Wiens.
Reminder of title:	monarchy, nation-building, and war, 1866-1918 /
Author:	Wiens, Gavin.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023.
Description:	xvii, 313 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	ArmiesHistory19th century.Germany
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22863-6
ISBN:	9783031228636$q(electronic bk.)

The Imperial German Army between Kaiser and Kingmonarchy, nation-building, and war, 1866-1918 /
Wiens, Gavin.

The Imperial German Army between Kaiser and Kingmonarchy, nation-building, and war, 1866-1918 /[electronic resource] :by Gavin Wiens. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xvii, 313 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. Genesis -- 3. Military Federalism -- 4. The Need for Compromise -- 5. Warrior Princes -- 6. The Danger Within -- 7. Fighting Together but Apart. 8. Conclusion.

This book provides a reappraisal of Germany's military between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the First World War. At its core is the following question: how 'German' was the imperial German army? This army, which emerged from the Wars of Unification in 1871, has commonly been seen as the 'school of the nation'. After all - so this argument goes - tens of thousands of young men passed through its ranks each year, with conscripts undergoing an intense program of patriotic education and returning to civilian life as fervent German nationalists and ardent supporters of the German emperor, or Kaiser. This book reexamines this assumption. It does not deny that devotion to the Fatherland and loyalty to the Kaiser were widespread among German soldiers in the decades following unification. It nevertheless shows that the imperial German army was far less homogenous and far more faction-ridden than has hitherto been acknowledged. Gavin Wiens completed his PhD at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he teaches modern German and European history, world history, and the Holocaust.

ISBN: 9783031228636$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-22863-6doiSubjects--Corporate Names:

392387
Germany.
Heer--History--19th century.Subjects--Topical Terms:

950644
Armies
--History--Germany--19th century.

LC Class. No.: UA712

Dewey Class. No.: 355.0094309034

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