List of tables and figures; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Shetland dialect; Map; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index
Examines the political, economic and social structures of the Empire and the repressive techniques employed by Bismarck to consolidate the regime. This work also looks at the Germany of Wilhelm II and the events surrounding the First World War.
This comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry also provides a major contribution to the social history of working-class life in the nineteenth century.