Central European History

Table of Contents - 2002 - Volume 35, Issue 01  

An Exchange on the Kaiserreich

Reply to Volker Berghahn

Margaret Lavinia Andersona1

a1 University of California, Berkeley

I am grateful to Volker Berghahn for the chance to clarify our differences as well as for the characteristic civility of his critique. In what follows, I will 1) take issue with his view of German historiography; 2) rebut his charge that the recent scholarship has left us with a “fragmented,” ultimately undecipherable picture of the Kaiserreich; and 3) explain why I think my own argument in Practicing Democracy, which he agrees takes seriously the oppressive features of German society, is more persuasive than his picture of “deterioration to the point of impasse and ungovernability.”

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