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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Theresia Bauer. Blockpartei und Agrarrevolution von oben: Die Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands 1948–1963. (Studien zur Zeitgeschichte, number 64.) Munich: R. Oldenbourg. 2003. Pp. 639.

Theresia Bauer's impressive study of the Demokratische Bauernpartei Deutschlands (Democratic Peasant Party of Germany, or DBD) is nothing if not thorough. An artificially created subservient agricultural party in an undemocratic system receives nearly 560 pages of text and mostly archival footnotes, thirty pages of statistical tables, and over forty pages of scholarly apparatus—and all this for the first sixteen years of its forty-three-year existence. This might seem excessive, and, in terms of reader concentration and the need for editorial restraint, it is. The impact of Bauer's meticulous research would have been greater if some of the detail and all of the repetition had been lost along the way. Nonetheless, the book is a fine achievement, superseding all previous studies.

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