1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910808845703321

Autore

Blackbourn David <1949->

Titolo

The peculiarities of German history : bourgeois society and politics in nineteenth-century Germany / / by David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1984

ISBN

0-19-158599-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 300 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

EleyGeoff <1949->

Disciplina

943/.07

Soggetti

History - 19th century

Germany History 1789-1900 Historiography

Germany Social life and customs 19th century

Germany Politics and government 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. and expanded translation of the authors' Mythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; The British Model and the German Road: Rethinking the Course of German History Before 1914; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Reappraising German History in the Nineteenth Century; Bibliographical Note; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A well-written, stimulating...piece of scholarship. 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.