The German Revolutions (Classic European Historians)

The Peasant War in Germany and Germany: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, reproduced here in full, together present the history of social revolution in Germany. In spite their philosophical bias, these histories have retained the attention of most non-Marxist historians. Engels set up the model for those who would describe the religious and political upheavals of the sixteenth century and of 1848 in the context of social change. Although he is generally held to have overemphasized the class struggle, his historical writing as well as his philosophy of history has exerted a lasting influence on European historiography. The Peasant War in Germany (1850) is given here in Moissaye H. Olgin's translation. Germany: Revolution and Counter-Revolution was written by Engels in English for the New York Tribune, 1851–52. The two works appear here as a volume in the series, Classic European Historians.