The Peasant War in Germany by Friedrich Engels, 1850, is an account of 16th century uprisings.
This book was written by Friedrich Engels in London, during the summer of 1850, following the failure of the revolutions of 1848-1849, drawing a parallel between that failure and that of the Peasants' War of 1525. The book did not consist of independently collected material. All the material relating to the peasant revolts and to Thomas Münzter had been...
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The Peasant War in Germany by Friedrich Engels, 1850, is an account of 16th century uprisings.
This book was written by Friedrich Engels in London, during the summer of 1850, following the failure of the revolutions of 1848-1849, drawing a parallel between that failure and that of the Peasants' War of 1525. The book did not consist of independently collected material. All the material relating to the peasant revolts and to Thomas Münzter had been taken from the historian Wilhelm Zimmermann's book The History of the Great Peasant War. The Peasant War in Germany originally appeared in the fifth and sixth issues of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung-Revue, a political economic review edited by Karl Marx in Hamburg, and was later reissued in book forms. In this book, drawing upon the notion of historical materialism, Engels downplays the importance of political and religious causes for the war, traditionally cited, focusing instead on materialistic, economic factors.
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