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This chapter introduces the key aims and objectives of the book and explains its place in the MUP series Issues in Historiography. It identifies the late 1970s as a key turning point in debates on the German Revolution of 1918–19, marking a transition from political and social science to cultural history approaches, but also argues that this break should not be seen as too clean-cut or overdetermined. It further defines key terms used to frame the arguments presented in the book – ‘the new cultural history’, ‘revolutionary scripts’, ‘political imaginaries’, ‘the German Revolution’ and ‘historiography’ – as a scientific and political endeavour undertaken by professional historians who are themselves influenced by the times and places in which they live.

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