Book Reviews

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-134

Robert C. HolubThe Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche edited by Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. HigginsPeter JelavichThe Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian LaddAndrea WuerthA German Women’s Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933 by Nancy R. ReaginAnton PelinkaNazism and the Working Class in Austria: Industrial Unrest and Political Dissent in the “National Community” by Timothy KirkBen MeredithMitteleuropa and German Politics 1848 to the Present by Jörg BrechtefeldThomas WelskoppSociety, Culture, and the State in Germany 1870–1930 edited by Geoff Eley

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-176
Author(s):  
Michael seidman

SummaryA focus on politically uncommitted working-class women alters the traditional historiographical emphasis on collective militancy in the Spanish Revolution. A large number of females acted ambivalently towards the cause, and revolutionaries were forced to confront women's individualism. In the search for the collective identities of class and gender, this individualism has been ignored. Instead of neglecting or condemning the personal, historians should try to understand how an exploration of the varieties of subversive individualism – resistance to workplace discipline, opportunism, and petty fraud – can expand the boundaries of social history and help to contribute to a theory of the state.


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