The Peculiarities of Gewrman History

Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany

David Blackbourn author Geoff Eley author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:13th Dec '84

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This book investigates the role of bourgeoisie society and the political developments of the nineteenth century in the peculiarities of German history. Most historians attribute German exceptionalism to the failure or absence of bourgeois revolution in German history and the failure of the bourgeoisie to conquer the pre-industrial traditions of authoritarianism. However, this study finds that there was a bourgeois revolution in Germany, though not the traditional type. This so-called silent bourgeois revolution brought about the emergence and consolidation of the capitalist system based on the sanctity and disposability of private property and on production to meet individual needs through a system of exchange dominated by the market. In this connection, this book proposes a redefinition of the concept of bourgeois revolution to denote a broader pattern of material, institutional, legal, and intellectual changes whose cumulative effect was all the more powerful for coming to be seen as natural.

ISBN: 9780198730583

Dimensions: 219mm x 147mm x 23mm

Weight: 1g

312 pages