TY - BOOK AU - Blackbourn,David AU - Eley,Geoff TI - The peculiarities of German history: bourgeois and politics in nineteenth-century Germany SN - 9780191694943 (ebook) : AV - DD203 U1 - 943.07 23 PY - 1984/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Middle class KW - Germany KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Political participation KW - 1789-1900 KW - 1871-1918 KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Did Germany develop in an unusual, rather 'unhealthy' way? Was Imperial Germany characterized by the triumph of authoritarian Prussian aristocratic classes ('Junkers')? The authors are deeply critical of this interpretation. They contend that Germany may have developed in a particular way and although devoid of a 'bourgeois revolution', the middle classes came to the fore in the economy, culture and society UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198730583.001.0001 ER -