German Professions, 1800-1950

Name: German Professions, 1800-1950
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ISBN: 9780195055962

ISBN-10: 0195055969

ISBN-13: 9780195055962

Edition: 1990

Authors: Geoffrey Cocks, Konrad H. Jarausch

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This work provides comprehensive coverage of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany from the point of view of the history of professions. Sixteen historians from the United States, West Germany, and Great Britain examine professions ranging from law, medicine, and education to engineering, social work, and psychology as well as the special cases of the civil service and the military. They examine such questions as the role of the Prussian state in the creation and regulation of professions, the experience of women, the social and political role of the various professional groups during the turbulent Weimar and Nazi periods, and the remarkable institutional continuity of certain…

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List price: $250.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/10/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.57" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction



The German Professions in History and Theory




The Nineteenth Century


Specialists Against Specialization: Hellenism as Professional Ideology in German Classical Studies



Public Office or Free Profession? German Attorneys in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries



The Making of the Modern Medical Profession, 1800-1914: Prussian Doctors in the Nineteenth Century



Volksschullehrerinnen: Bavarian Women Defining Themselves Through Their Profession



Engineers in Wilhelmian Germany: Professionalization, Deprofessionalization, and the Development of Nonacademic Technical Education



Academic, Proletarian, ...Professional? Shaping Professionalization for German Industrial Chemists, 1887-1920



A Struggle for Existence: The Professionalization of German Architects




The Twentieth Century


Profession as Vocation: The German Civil Service



The Past as Future: The German Officer Corps as Profession



The Professionalization of Applied Economics: German Counterparts to Business Administration



Femininity as a Vocation: Gender and Class Conflict in the Professionalization of German Social Work



Conflict Within the Legal Profession: Simultaneous Admission and the German Bar, 1903-1927



Women and the Professions in Germany, 1900-1945



Psychology in Twentieth-Century Germany: Science and Profession



The Professionalization of Psychotherapy in Germany, 1928-1949



Index