Rethinking German History (Routledge Revivals) by Richard J. ... - 9781138842847

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Rethinking German History (Routledge Revivals)Nineteenth-Century Germany and the Origins of the Third Reich\nAuthor(s): Richard J. Evans\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138842847, 978-1138842847\nSynopsis\nIn 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 look beyond the world of high politics, institutions, organizations and ideologies to broader historical problems of German society and German mentalities. By applying and adapting approaches learned from French and British social history as they have been developed over the last quarter of a century, it is possible to ac.