Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany: The Rise of Academic Illiberalism

by Konrad H. Jarausch

Book Overview

Konrad H. Jarausch studies the social structure of the German university and the mentality of its students during the Imperial period as an example of a wider European academic desertion of liberalism. He finds that German higher education combined scientific world leadership and competent professional training with an eroding liberal education (Bildung) to create an educated class that was tragically susceptible to the appeal of the Third Reich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691614245
• ISBN13: 9780691614243
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"