''The Roots of National Socialism, 1783-1933'' is a 1941 book by

Rohan Butler Rohan D'Olier Butler (21 January 1917 - 30 October 1996) was an English historian and civil servant. Butler worked on the multi-volume ''Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919–1939''. He was an editor (1945–54) under Sir Llewellyn Woodward, ...

. It is a survey of the German outlook on society from 1783 to 1933. It details the intellectual developments leading to the

ideology An ideology is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons, especially those held for reasons that are not purely epistemic, in which "practical elements are as prominent as theoretical ones." Formerly applied pri ...

Nazism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...

. It was first published in June 1941 by

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(London) as a 310-page hardcover. E. P. Dutton & co. (New York) republished it in 1942, followed by H. Fertig (New York) in 1968, and

AMS Press The Augustan Reprint Society was a book publisher founded in 1946, based in Los Angeles, California. The Society has reprinted many rare works, drawn largely from the collections of the William Andrews Clark Library at University of California, Los ...

(New York) in 1985 ().

*I. Background *II.

Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...

1783-1815 *III. Reaction 1815-1848 *IV. Unification 1848-1871 *V.

Empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

1871-1918 *VI.

Republic A republic () is a "state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th c ...

1918-1933 *VII. Foreground *Index

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*''The Roots of National Socialism'' reviewed by C. C. Eckhardt in '' American Historical Review'', Vol. 48, No. 3 (Apr. 1943), pp. 539–54

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