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

by Blackbourn, David; Eley, Geoff

• ISBN13: 9780198730576
• ISBN10: 0198730578
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-12-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

"A well-written, stimulating...piece of scholarship." --German StudiesReview. In a major re-evaluation of the cultural, political, and sociologicalassumptions about the "peculiar" course of modern German history, the authorschallenge the widely held belief that Germany did not have a Western-stylebourgeois revolution. Contending that it did indeed experience one, but thatthis had little to do with the mythical rising of the middle class, the authorsprovide a new context for viewing the tensions and instability of 19th-and early20th-century Germany.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
The British Model and the German Road Rethinking the Course of German History before 1914	p. 37
Basic Assumptions Of German Historiography	p. 39
German Historians and The Problem of Bourgeois Revolution	p. 51
Theoretical Bearings The British Societal Mod&eadot;l	p. 62
Bourgeoisie--Liberalism--Democracy Some Necessary Distinctions	p. 75
Backward State/Modern Economy Unscrambling the German Couplet	p. 91
Possibilities of Reform In Britain and Germany	p. 98
The Realpolitik of the Bourgeoisie And Redundancy of Liberalism	p. 118
Defining the State in Imperial Germany	p. 127
Some Provisional Conclusions	p. 144
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Reappraising German History in the Nineteenth Century	p. 157
German Peculiarities	p. 159
Economy and Society A Silent Bourgeois Revolution	p. 176
Economy and Society: the Shadow Side	p. 206
The State and Politics	p. 238
The Political Stage And the Problem of Reform	p. 261
Conclusion	p. 286
Bibliographical Note	p. 293
Index	p. 295
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