Abstract

Abstract This chapter examines the so-called German exceptionalism, focusing on the view that German history is different from the rest of Western Europe. It explains that most German historians believed that the exceptionalism argument is linked to the supposed failure or absence of bourgeois revolution in German history and its consequences for the country's future political development. It suggests that the bourgeoisie's failure to conquer the pre-industrial traditions of authoritarianism has left Germany vulnerable to the future, particularly the internal strains of a modernizing society.

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