Исследование этого вопроса см. в Geoff Eley, From Unification to Nazism: Reinterpreting the German Past (London, 1986), 254-82; David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth — Century Germany (Oxford, 1984); Evans, Rethinking German History, 93-122; Richard J. Evans (ed.), Society and Politics in Wilhelmine Germany (London, 1978); Jürgen Kocka, ‘German History Before Hitler: The Debate about the German Sonderweg’, Journal of Contemporary History, 23 (1988), 3–16; Robert G. Moeller, ‘The Kaiserreich Recast? Continuity and Change in Modern German Historiography’, Journal of Social History, 17(1984), 655-83.
