num_pages: 300
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.
language: English
title: The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
titlecomplete: The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
genres: Politics, Grad School, History, Germany, European History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 98
publisher: Oxford University Press, USA