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HI136 The History of GermanyLecture 1 Germany’s ‘Special Path’ What comes to mind when you think of Germany and the Germans? Module Themes The Making of the modern German state and society. Germany’s transformation from maverick to model state. Diversity. Germany’s ‘Special Path’ (Sonderweg). Germany’s ‘special path’ (Deutscher Sonderweg) Distinctive German way to modernity which contrasts with the standard (West European, British, French) way Industrialization: belated industrial revolution, several decades after that of England Failed bourgeois revolution in Germany (defeat of the democrati