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The Peculiarities Of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Author(s): David Blackbourn (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Publication Date: 20 Dec. 1984
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 312 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198730578
- ISBN-13: 9780198730576
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
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`It is a lucid tour de force illuminating innumerable aspects of European as well as of German history in a conflictive period. There can be no doubt that it will soon acquire classic status.' British Book News.
