B. Steiner takes up a general problem in the theory of history: how does one explain historical change? What are the theoretical, non-time-bound conditions under which we can speak of a break, a transformation, or a revolution? He uses selected examples to illustrate how contemporaries and historians have sought to understand historical change through deliberate reflection on unintended consequences.

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Benjamin Steiner, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main