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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SODOMY AND THE INVENTION OF BLACKMAIL -- 2 THE MODERN MANIA FOR MORALITY -- 3 WOMANIZING ACROSS CLASS LINES -- 4 ENTRAPPING THE JAZZ-AGE AMERICAN MALE -- 5 THE HOMOSEXUAL TARGET BETWEEN THE WARS -- 6 EXPLOITING RACIAL ANXIETIES -- 7 BLACKMAIL AND THE NEW WOMAN -- 8 CAUTIONARY TALES OF ADULTERY AND ABORTION -- 9 DISARMING THE POSTWAR BLACKMAILER -- 10 THE GAY MOVEMENT'S ATTACK ON VICTIMIZATION -- 11 FROM BLACKMAIL TO TABLOID EXPOSÉ -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- INDEX

Eva Bischoff s Imperialism in Modern German History is the first comprehensive, English-language exploration of the history of German imperialism. It follows German colonial aspirations from their imaginary beginnings in the 1880s through to the plans of the Nazi regime to create a territorial empire in Eastern Europe and the lingering colonial legacies of postcolonial Germany in the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition, the volume introduces its readers to key aspects of research debates centring on class, race, sexuality and Nazism that shape the way historians see German imperialism today.Examining Germany s past from a transnational and global perspective, this is a vital text for all students of modern German history and the history of European empires

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It demonstrates how, faced with foreign threats, Japan developed a new governing structure to deal with these challenges and in turn gradually shaped its international environment. Had Japan been a self-sufficient power, like the United States, it is unlikely that external relations would have exercised such great control over the nation. And, if it were a smaller country, it may have been completely pressured from the outside and could not have influenced the global stage on its own. For better or worse therefore, this book argues, Japan was neither too large nor too small. Covering the major events, actors, and institutions of Japan's modern history, the key themes discussed include: Building the Meiji state and Constitution. The establishment of Parliament. The First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. Party Politics and International Cooperation. The Pacific War. Development of LDP politics. Changes in the international order and the end of the Cold War. This book, written by one of Japan's leading experts on Japan's political history, will be an essential resource for students of Japanese modern history and politics.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition -- Conceptual Preface -- Part I: Household, Clan, Village and Manor (The Agrarian Organisation) -- 1 Agrarian Organisation and the Problem of Agrarian Communism -- 2 Appropriation and Verband - The Clan -- 3 The Economic Development of Seignoral Property -- 4 Internal Development of Manorial Rule -- 5 The Situation of the Peasantry in Various Occidental Countries before the Penetration of Capitalism -- 6 The Capitalistic Development of the Manor -- Part II: Industry and Mining before the Development of Capitalism -- 7 Principal Forms of Industrial Organization -- 8 Developmental Stages of Industry and Mining -- 9 Craft Guilds -- 10 The Emergence of Occidental Guilds -- 11 The Disintegration of the Guilds and the Development of the Domestic System -- 12 Workshop Production. The Factory and its Forerunners -- 13 Mining Prior to Capitalist Development -- Part III: Commerce in Goods and Money in the Precapitalist Era -- 14 The Origins and Development of Trade -- 15 Technical Preconditions for the Carriage of Goods -- 16 The Organizational Forms of Trade and Transport -- 17 Trading and Forms of Economic Enterprise -- 18 Merchant Guilds -- 19 Money and Monetary History -- 20 Money and Banking in the Precapitalist Era -- 21 Interest in the Precapitalist Period -- Part IV: The Emergence of Modern Capitalism -- 22 The Concept and Presuppositions of Capitalism -- 23 The External Features of Capitalist Development -- 24 The First Major Speculative Crises -- 25 Free Wholesale Trade -- 26 Colonial Policy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century -- 27 The Development of Industrial Technology -- 28 Citizenship -- 29 The Rational State -- 30 The Conditions for Capitalist Development.

A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Modern Age covers the period from 1918 to the present. Through the lens of the political and international events shaping the period, the introduction traces the gradual demise of the cultural importance of European empires and the emergence of the United States as the predominant cultural model. The following eight chapters of the volume, authored by a diverse range of experts, highlight different aspects of this cultural shift while indicating the historiographical controversies and conceptual developments that shaped the century-long evolution related to each of the specific topics.This richly-illustrated and accessible volume provides deep historical context to the rise of the US as a major cultural force in the modern era. In so doing, it gives the reader a backdrop to the shift of Western empire from the European model of 18th and 19th century imperialism, to the emergence of the US as a cultural hegemon. A feature of contemporary geopolitics that continues to play a key role in the dynamics of cultural exchange and influence playing out on the world stage today.This is volume 6 in the Cultural History of Western Empires set