The Peculiarities Of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany - Softcover

Blackbourn, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198730578 ISBN 13: 9780198730576

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1984

Synopsis

"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.

About this title

Review:

`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.

About the Author:

David Blackbourn is at University of London. Geoff Eley is at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0198730578
• ISBN 13: 9780198730576
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312