The Origins of Modern Germany

The Origins of Modern Germany"No one is likely to underrate the importance for the rest of Europe and, indeed, for world history of the German reaction, beginning in the days of Bismarck, to the crisis of modern industrial capitalism," writes Professor Barraclough, "but the peculiar character of that reaction is only comprehensible in the light of Germany's past. Factors deeply rooted in German history . . . constituted an iron framework, a mold within which were cast all German

"No one is likely to underrate the importance for the rest of Europe--and, indeed, for world history--of the German reaction, beginning in the days of Bismarck, to the crisis of modern industrial capitalism," writes Professor Barraclough, "but the peculiar character of that reaction is only comprehensible in the light of Germany's past. Factors deeply rooted in German history . . . constituted an iron framework, a mold within which were cast all German efforts, from 1870 to 1939, to cope with the problems of modern capitalist society."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/1984
ISBN: 9780393301533
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.90w x 1.10d