The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
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1984
Online ISBN:
9780191694943
Print ISBN:
9780198730583
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1. Organized Capitalism and Cultural Despair 1. Organized Capitalism and Cultural Despair
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2. Legal Positivism, Civic Quietism, and ‘Feudalization’ 2. Legal Positivism, Civic Quietism, and ‘Feudalization’
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Chapter
III Economy and Society: The Shadow Side
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Pages
206–237
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Published:December 1984
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Blackbourn, David, 'Economy and Society: The Shadow Side', The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Oxford , 1984; online edn, Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198730583.003.0013, accessed 21 Feb. 2023.
Abstract
This chapter examines the so-called shadow side of the achievement of the bourgeois revolution in Germany, which is the capitalist system. This system unlocked productive capacity, created a national market within an international economy, and opened up opportunities for entrepreneurial talent as material and institutional restrictions were pushed aside. It also increased consumption levels and generated employment. This chapter suggests that the principal problem with bourgeois society in Germany was not its absence but its ambiguity and that the bourgeoisie was as much a victim of its contradictory successes as its outright failures.
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