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

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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 viewing the tensions and instability of 19th-and early 20th-century Germany.