The German Peasant League and the limits of rural liberalism in Wilhelmian Germany

GS Vascik - Central European History, 1991 - cambridge.org
To what extent was liberalism a resurgent force in the last decade of the German Empire?
Considerable debate has materialized around this question. After he became chair of the …

Sugar Barons and Bureaucrats: Unravelling the Relationship Between Economic Interest and Government in Modern Germany, 1799-1945

GS Vascik - Business and Economic History, 1992 - JSTOR
On January 11, 1799, the agricultural chemist Franz Carl Achard presented the king of
Prussia with a pound of white sugar, wrapped in a silken handkerchief [1]. This sugar had …