Economic Interest, Militarism, and Foreign PolicyFirst published in 1930, Eckart Kehr's Economic Interest, Militarism, and Foreign Policy was a landmark in the reorientation of German historiography. Breaking with the prevailing tradition of high political and diplomatic history, Kehr argued that the roots of Wilhelmine Germany's militarism and imperial expansion lay not in grand strategy or ideology but in the material interests of agrarian elites, industrial magnates, and bureaucratic