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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
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4 I have discussed Hull's book at greater length in a forthcoming review in History.
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8 Marx-Engels selected works (Moscow, 1950), p. 225, quoted both in Paul Kennedy's contribution to Kaiser Wilhelm II (p. 143) and by Tim Mason in The ‘Führer State‘, p. 37.Google Scholar
9 There are also a few oddities in the translation (on page 188 the Freikorps appear as ‘commandos’), a handful of solecisms (‘it's’ for ‘its’ on page 201, for example), some misprints in the German (the printer has been too free with umlauts, e.g. on page 118, where we encounter an author called Goëthe), and even a small number of errors (as on page 60, where M. Ayçoberry evidently thinks Otto Bauer was a German Social Democrat).
10 I use this term to indicate that what these historians emphasize is the self-generating radicalism of political and administrative structures, independent of the intentions of those operating within them or of socio-economic forces acting upon them from outside.
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