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The Genesis of German Conservatism
By (Author) Klaus Epstein
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sociology
Social and cultural history
European history
320.520943
Paperback
748
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
1021g
Although Conservative parties did not exist in Germany until after the Napoleonic Wars, there did emerge, around 1770, traceable organized political activity and intellectual currents of a clearly Conservative character. The author argues that this movement developed as a response to the challenge of the Enlightenment in the fields of religion, soc