Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1914 (Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany)

by Pieter M. Judson

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Exclusive Revolutionaries traces the development of German liberal and later nationalist political culture in imperial Austria from the revolutions of 1848 to the outbreak of World War I. Drawing on archival research from several regions of the former Habsburg Monarchy, Pieter M. Judson provides a clear, chronological political narrative that demonstrates the continuing influence of liberal ideas and values well after the defeat of liberal political parties.

In the mid-1800s, Judson argues, German liberal activists built an effective political movement whose ideology was rooted in its members' social experience in voluntary associations. The liberals were committed to the...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780472107407
  • Publish Date 11 December 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint The University of Michigan Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English