First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Explores the social and cultural aspects of the German Social Democratic labor movement in the era between the 1860s and the outbreak of the First Wolrd War.

It has often ben suggested that artists and writers in Germany's imperial era shunned social engagement, preferring instead apolitical introspection. However, a

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of