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Populists and Patricians (Routledge Revivals): Essays in Modern German History book cover

1st Edition

Populists and Patricians (Routledge Revivals) Essays in Modern German History

By Pierre R. Crosson Copyright 1987
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1987, this collection of essays, from one of the leading historians in the field, is concerned with the central debates about German history from Bismarck to Hitler. David Blackbourn questions many previously held assumptions, whether about the natural conservatism of the German peasantry of the ‘feudalization’ of the middle classes, and offers a new angle of approach to such... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  Part I: ‘Great Men’?  1. Bismarck: the Sorcerer’s Apprentice  2. The Kaiser and his Entourage  3. The Big Show: Syerbeg’s Hitler;  Part II: Awkward Classes  4. The Discreet Charm of the German Bourgeoisie  5. Between Resignation and Volatility: the German Petty Bourgeoisie in the Nineteenth-Century  6. Peasants and Politics in Germany, 1871-1914;  Part III: Catholics and Politics  7. Progress and Piety: Liberals, Catholics and the State in Bismarck’s Germany  8. Catholics, the Centre Party and Anti-Semitism  9. Catholics and Politics in Imperial Germany: the Centre Party and its Constituency;  Part IV: Populists and Patricians  10. The Politics of Demagogy in Imperial Germany  11. Politics as Theatre: Metaphors of the Stage in German History, 1848-1933;  Index

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