Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change After Bismarck

By Geoff Eley

Book Overview

Examines the conditions under which a particular right-wing ideology was generated This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300023863
• ISBN13: 9780300023862
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Membership of the national pressure groups, 1881 to 1914

From the cover flap: Geoff Eley is concerned with the conditions under which this right-wing ideology - radical nationalism with a powerful populist inflection - was generated. The study also contains important general arguments about the character and weakness of German liberalism, the nature of the Wilhelmine Imperial state, the forms of a ‘modern’ popular politics, and an a-n-a-l-y-s-i-s of nationalist ideology. This is an important contribution to the debate on the historical context of National Socialism. It took me two semesters just to get through the information in this book. We get to follow popular people and movements of the period. The author Geoff Eley did not have an ax to grind or a single point of view. We are not looking at it through just the eyes of economics or any discipline. After the preface, there is a list of abbreviations. In the back of the book are all the necessary appendices to give the big picture. Speaking about pictures, there are no pictures, sketches, or diagrams in the basic book.