Volume 25, Number 7 · May 4, 1978
How Did the Germans Do It?
By C.B.A. Behrens
The Age of German Liberation, 1795-1815
by Friedrich Meinecke, edited with an introduction by Peter Paret, translated by Peter Paret, by Helmuth Fischer
University of California Press, 131 pp., $2.45 (paper)
Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
by Steven L. Kaplan
Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague), 797 pp., 150 guilders (two volumes)
Under the title of The Age of German Liberation Peter Paret has provided us with an excellent translation of a book by one of the most important modern German historians: Friedrich Meinecke's Zeitalter der Deutschen Erhebung. This title, however, in both its English and its German versions, is something of a misnomer, since except when he dealt with political ideas Meinecke was not concerned with Germany as a whole, but only with Prussia, the state which supplied the inspiration, the leadership, and the bulk of the fighting forces that freed Germany from the French after the retreat from Moscow in 1812.
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