Canadian Journal of History, April 1st, 1994
This ambitious, well-researched, argumentative, and occasionally truculent book sets out to arrest what has tended to be the main direction of research on popular politics in nineteenth-century Germany since the end of the 1960s. Inspired originally by the contemporary opening of the Federal Republic towards "more democracy" under the government of Wily Brandt, historians sought to embed the call for the latter in a deeper narrative of German radicalisms in the past, beginning in the later eighteenth century and the impact on Germany of the French Revolution. In some degree, Karl Wegert appear...
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