Prominent historians provide insights into the social, political, and intellectual components of German conservatism from its origins in the late 18th century, through to the end of the Third Reich. These essays provide the basis for a collective reassessment of the role that conservatism has played in Germany's national development.

Prominent American, British and German historians provide new insights into the social, political, and intellectual components of German conservatism from its origins in the late 18th century through to the end of the Third Reich. The essays combine fresh empirical research with new theoretical and historiographical perspectives to provide the basis for a collective reassessment of the role that conservatism has played in Germany's national development.

German conservatism reconsidered - old problems and new directions, L.E. Jones and J. Retallack
the politics of revival - pietists, aristocrats and the state church in early 19th century Prussia, C. Clark
conservatives and the social question in 19th century Prussia, H. Beck
Victor Aime Huber and the emergence of social conservatism, W. Schwentker
the court Camarilla and the politics of monarchical restoration in Prussia, D.E. Barclay
between economic interests and radical nationalism - attempts to found a new right-wing party in imperial Germany, 1887-94, D. Stegman
anti-semitism, agrarian mobilization and the Conservative Party - radicalism and containment in the founding of the Agrarian League, G. Vascik
the road to Philippi - the Conservative Party and Bethmann Hollweg's "politics of the diagonal", 1909-14, J. Retallack
breakdown or breakthrough? conservatives and the November Revolution, P. Fritzsche
conservatism, national socialism and the cultural crisis of the Weimar Republic, A.E. Steinweis
government without parties - conserative plans for constitutional revision at the end of the Weimar Republic, H. Mommsen
organized rural women and the conservative mobilization of the German countryside in the Weimar Republic, R. Bridenthal
convergence on the right - agrarian elite radicalism and Nazi populism in Pomerania, 1928-33, S. Baranowski
the conservative resistance to Hitler and the fall of the Weimar Republic, 1932-34, T.S. Hamerow
the limits of collaboration - Edgar Jung, Herbert von Bose and the origins of the conservative resistance to Hitler, 1933-34, L.E. Jones.