Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…The origins of its economic and political dominance can be traced back to the beginning of the German Empire’s formation. In Blood and Iron, Katja Hoyer delves into the rise of German Empire and its eventual fall, leading to the First World War, a pivotal event that reshaped the European map. …”
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Economic Policy of the German Empire from 1871 — Lessons for Today? by ZG Überblick

“…Abstract The German Empire celebrates its 150th birthday in 2021. …”
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Keeping the memory of Napoleonic wars: forms of international cooperation between Russia and the German Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century by A. S. Lizogub

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Le Bureau municipal de la construction de Strasbourg, service administratif ou agence d’architecture ? by Hélène Antoni

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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“…Taking a distinct turn from the religious prejudice suffered by many Jews in what became the German Empire, a new form of racialized antisemitism emerged and created a legacy of racialized hatred that was most commonly associated with the Third Reich. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“…Taking a distinct turn from the religious prejudice suffered by many Jews in what became the German Empire, a new form of racialized antisemitism emerged and created a legacy of racialized hatred that was most commonly associated with the Third Reich. …”
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Objects of Politics: The Appropriation of Earth Science Collections in Prussia during the Long Nineteenth Century by Angela Strauß

“…During the nineteenth century, appropriation processes were increasingly shaped by economic arguments and political perspectives. After the German Empire became a colonial power in the 1880s, rocks and minerals from Africa, particularly Namibia and Tanzania, were seized. …”
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Grenzüberschreitungen / Traversées des frontières by Aude Therstappen

“…Destroyed and then reconstituted thanks to international donations and in particular those from the German Empire, the collections of the Bnu constitute a privileged mirror of the eventful history of the region. …”
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Between France and Germany: René Schickele and “Geistiges Elsässertum” by Áine McGillicuddy

“…Schickele’s bicultural heritage and the turbulent times he lived through when Alsace was annexed to the Second German Empire, before returning to live under French rule after the traumatic experience of World War I, had a deep and lasting influence on him. …”
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« Immoral persons » : genre et respectabilité dans les traversées transatlantiques depuis Brême et Hambourg au début du XXe siècle by Sarah Marciano

“…Drawing on case studies, the following paper highlights the individual consequences of U.S. migration policies in the early 20th century, by focusing on women from the German Empire who crossed the Atlantic. By examining unpublished diplomatic correspondence with American consuls stationed in Germany, this paper aims to explore the grounds upon which expulsion procedures were undertaken; some of these were against allegedly immoral German women, while some targeted men accused of having brought them to the United States for “immoral purposes.” …”
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Recht sprechen über »besondere Gebilde« – die koloniale Gerichtsbarkeit und das Reichsgericht by Jakob Zollmann

“…First, the article highlights a number of colonial legal issues that were tried in German courts before the German Empire formally became a colonial power in 1884. …”
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Komunistyczna rewolucja w Niemczech w ujęciu teorii rewolucji permanentnej Lwa Trockiego by Jakub Skrzyniarz

“…The defeat in World War I caused the collapse of the German Empire and establishment of the Weimar Republic, which from the very beginning faced significant sociopolitical challenges. …”
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Le Carnet de campagne du colonel de Villebois-Mareuil : journal de bord d’un « volontaire » d’extrême-droite troublé by Richard Tholoniat

“…The Anglophobia of this soldier, one of the founders of the Action Française, can be ascribed to the nationalism of the extreme right at the end of the century: after the defeat of 1870, which led to the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and the advent of the German Empire, France was to come up against the British in its colonial aims at a time when Africa was being divided amongst European countries. …”
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Weisheit der Völker oder Weisheit auf der Gasse? Nationale Stereotype in polnischen und deutschen Sprichwörtern aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert by Małgorzata Guławska-Gawkowska

“…In Poland, the creation of the proverbs was associated with the period of partitions and the fight for independence, and in Germany with the unification of the German states ending with the proclamation of the German Empire. The postulate formulated in the article concerns taking steps to compare Wander‘s dictionary with the first Polish phraseological dictionary by Samuel Adalberg, „Księga przysłów polskich” (1894). …”
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Auch eine Gewerkschaft? Der Deutschnationale Handlungsgehilfenverband und die Angestellten by Martin Otto

“…Founded in Hamburg in 1893, with roots in Adolf Stoecker’s nationalist Christian social movement, it defined itself explicitly as a Christian union with anti-socialist and also antisemitic tendencies.The number of commercial employees rose during the German Empire, and most clerks obviously lacked any chance of becoming independent. …”
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