The Peculiarities of German History Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany |
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| Author:
| Blackbourn, David
Eley, Geoff |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-873057-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1984 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $128.14AUD $157.95 |
Book Description:
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"A well-written, stimulating...piece of scholarship." --German Studies Review. In a major re-evaluation of the cultural, political, and sociological assumptions about the "peculiar" course of modern German history, the authors challenge the widely held belief that Germany did not have a Western-style bourgeois revolution. Contending that it did indeed experience one, but that this had little to do with the mythical rising of the middle class, the authors provide a new context for...
More Description"A well-written, stimulating...piece of scholarship." --German Studies Review. In a major re-evaluation of the cultural, political, and sociological assumptions about the "peculiar" course of modern German history, the authors challenge the widely held belief that Germany did not have a Western-style bourgeois revolution. Contending that it did indeed experience one, but that this had little to do with the mythical rising of the middle class, the authors provide a new context for viewing the tensions and instability of 19th-and early 20th-century Germany.