The Ruhr crisis, 1923-1924
This is a comprehensive account of a definitive and mutually self-defeating confrontation, which marked one of the great untold tragedies of European history yet, paradoxically, sowed the seeds of Franco-German reconciliation after 1949.
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- Full title :The Ruhr crisis, 1923-1924 / Conan Fischer.
Summary
This is a comprehensive account of a definitive and mutually self-defeating confrontation, which marked one of the great untold tragedies of European history yet, paradoxically, sowed the seeds of Franco-German reconciliation after 1949.
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- Publication Date:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : : maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780198208006, 0198208006, 9780191716607, 019171660X
- oclc:ocn567955365
- LC Classification:DD801.R8
- Dewey Decimal:943.55085
Table of Contents
Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION -- 1 FROM VERSAILLES TO THE RUHR CRISIS 5 -- From the Armistice to the Peace Treaty 5 -- The London Reparations Agreement 14 -- From Wiesbaden to Locarno 20 -- A Crisis in Franco-British Relations 23 -- 2 OCCUPATION 29 -- Impasse 29 -- Final Preparations 31 -- Invasion 39 -- 3 HEAVY INDUSTRY, LABOUR, AND THE ONSET OF -- PASSIVE RESISTANCE 49 -- Heavy Industry 49 -- Labour 58 -- Preparations for a Long Haul 79 -- 4 CIVIL SERVANTS AND THE ONSET OF PASSIVE -- RESISTANCE 84 -- The Rules of Engagement 84 -- The Uniformed Police 93 -- The Railways 100oo -- 5 SOCIAL DISLOCATION DURING THE RUHR CRISIS: -- HUNGER AND EVACUATION 108 -- Food Supplies and the Struggle for Sovereignty 108 -- The Evacuation of the Children of the Ruhr 117 -- 6 SOCIAL DISLOCATION DURING THE RUHR CRISIS: -- SOLDIERS, MORAL CHALLENGES, AND EDUCATION 136 -- Declining Morale and the Erosion of Military Discipline 136 -- Women during the Occupation: Moral Challenges 143 -- The Disruption of the Educational System 146 -- 7 THE HIGH NOON OF THE PASSIVE RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN 150 -- The Battle for Coke and Coal 150 -- Funding Passive Resistance 160 -- The Limits of Active Resista…
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