But not even this difference is absolute, for bourgeois thought cannot be identified with any one of its manifestations, not with the historicism that most historians of the Second Reich in Germany
to, nor with the positivism that dominated in the French Third Republic, nor with the pragmatism that characterizes most English and American historians.
Nolte - 1974 - The Relationship between "Bourgeois" and "Marxist" Historiography
