Weimar Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-928007-0
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in the First World War and ended with the coming to power of Hitler and his Nazi Party in 1933. In many ways, it is a wonder that Weimar lasted as long as it did. Besieged from the outset by hostile forces, the young republic was threatened by revolution from the left and coups d'états from the right. Plagued early on by a wave of high-profile political assassinations and a period of devastating hyper-inflation, its later years were dominated by the onset of the Great Depression. And yet, for a period from the mid-1920s it looked as if the Weimar system would not only survive but even flourish, with the return of economic stability and the gradual reintegration of the country into the international community.

With contributions from an international team of ten experts, this volume in the Short Oxford History of Germany series offers an ideal introduction to Weimar Germany, challenging the reader to rethink preconceived ideas of the republic and throwing new light on important areas, such as military ideas for reshaping society after the First World War, constitutional and social reform, Jewish life, gender, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McElligott, Anthony

Mcelligott, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Anthony McElligott: Political Culture

- 2: Wolfgang Elz: Foreign Policy

- 3: William Mulligan: The Reichswehr and the Weimar Republic

- 4: Harold James: The Weimar Economy

- 5: John Bingham: The 'Urban Republic'

- 6: Kathleen Canning: Women and the Politics of Gender

- 7: Young-Sun Hong: The Weimar Welfare System

- 8: Adelheid von Saldern: 'Neues Wohnen': Housing and Reform

- 9: Anthony D. Kauders: Weimar Jewry

- 10: Karl Christian Führer: High Brow and Low Brow Culture

- Further Reading

- Chronology

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony McElligott is professor of history at the University of Limerick, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Historical Research. He is a founding co-editor of Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society. He has published widely on the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, notably Contested City: Municipal Politics and the Rise of Nazism in Altona 1917-1937 (1998), The German Urban Experience 1900-1945, Modernity and Crisis (2001), and with Tim Kirk, 'Working Towards The Führer': Essays in Honour of Sir Ian Kershaw (2003). He is currently completing a major new study of the Weimar republic, Rethinking The Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism 1916-1936.