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Jonathan Sperber guides readers through six decades of global history, from the end of World War Two to the onset of the new millenium. As Sperber's immersive and propulsive book reveals, the defining quality of these decades involved the rising and unstoppable flow of people, goods, capital, and ideas across boundaries, continents and oceans, creating prosperity in some parts of the world, destitution in others, increasing a sense of collective responsibility while also reinforcing nationalism and xenophobia. It was an age of transformation in every realm of human existence: from relations with nature to relations between nations, superpowers to emerging states; from the forms of production to the foundations of religious faith. These changes took on an unprecedentedly global scale. The world both developed and contracted. Most of all, it became interconnected.

Based on extensive documentation from original court records, this study on the uses of property in 19th century Germany provides new insights into the nature of civil society. Social attitudes and beliefs are revealed in the intriguing, and sometimes bizarre, stories of legal disputes

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: The parties -- 1 The Social Democrats -- An ascendant party -- Charting the rise of the Social Democrats -- Party voters, non-voters and the SPD -- Organization, agitation, and persecution -- Protestants, Catholics, and Social Democrats -- People's party or labor party? -- The Social Democratic electorate and the Social Democratic movemen -- 2 The minority parties -- Opposition or affirmation -- A dynamic stability: the minority parties and the voters -- The party loyalty of the minority electorate -- Organization and orientation of the minority parties -- Intransigent opposition to Bismarck's regime -- A difficult reorientation after 1890 -- Social groups and the minority party electorate -- Changing to stay the same -- 3 The "national" parties -- Parties of government / parties of the "nation -- Liberals, conservatives, and the voters -- A "national camp?" Party loyalty of liberal and conservative voters -- Liberals, conservatives, and the authorities -- Liberal and conservative voters by confession and class -- Liberal and conservative voters: change and stability -- Part 2: The elections -- 4 The Bismarckian elections -- The elections of the 1870s -- The elections of 1871 -- The Kulturkampf elections of 1874 -- The elections of 1877 and 1878 -- Electoral politics in the 1880s -- The elections of 1881 -- The elections of 1884 -- The Kartell elections of 1887 -- 5 The Wilhelmine elections -- The elections of the 1890s -- The elections of 1890 -- The elections of 1893 -- The elections of 1898 -- The twentieth-century general elections of the German Empire -- The elections of 1907 -- The elections of 1912 -- 6 A century of democratic elections -- Elections, parties, and voters in the Kaiserreich -- Elections