Empire Wilhelmine

For documents and discussion of Der Sturm , see Rose-Carol Washton-Long, ed., German Expressionism Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism (New York, 1993). 

The origins of Austrian and German modernist culture lie in the traditionally hierarchical, superficially stable pre-First World War society of the Habsburg and Wilhelmine Empires with their semi-autocratic political systems, within which however were fermenting the social divisions and conflicts described by Lynn Abrams in chapter 2. While admittedly some of... 

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