The politics of sociability: freemasonry and German civil society 1840-1918

In: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Abstract

Secrecy and enlightenment -- The society of "civil" citizens, 1840-70 -- Civic worlds, civic politics, 1871-1918 -- Civic virtue and sociability -- Rites of masculinity -- The mystery of bildung -- The individual, the nation, and mankind -- The fatherland of man -- Epilogue : the war of world citizens