1st Edition

Rethinking German History (Routledge Revivals) Nineteenth-Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich

By Richard J. Evans Copyright 1987
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

In Rethinking German History , first published in 1987, Richard J. Evans argues for a social-historical approach to the German past that pays equal attention to objective social structures and subjective values and experiences. If German history has been seen as an exception to the ‘normal’ development of Western society, this is not least because historians have until recently largely failed to... Read more

Acknowledgements;  Introduction;  Part 1: Historiographies;  1. Wilhelm II’s Germany and the Historians  2. From Hitler to Bismarck: Third Reich and Kaiserreich in Recent Historiography;  3. The Myth of Germany’s Missing Revolution;  Part 2: Mentalities;  4. Religion and Society in Modern Germany  5. In Pursuit of the Untertanengeist: Crime, Law and Social Order in German History;  Part 3: Movements;  6. The Sociological Interpretations of German Labour History  7. Liberalism and Society: the Feminist Movement and Social Change  8. ‘Red Wednesday’ in Hamburg: Social Democrats, Police and Lumpenproletarait in the Suffrage Disturbances of 17 January 1906;  Index

Biography

Richard J. Evans