Weimar Germany

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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 lateryears were dominated …

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Full title :Weimar Germany / edited by Anthony McElligott.

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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 lateryears were dominated by the onset of the Great Depression. And yet, for a period from the mid-1920s it looked as if the We.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xviii, 324 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0191500488, 9780191500480
oclc:ocn680682918
LC Classification:DD237
Dewey Decimal:943.085

Political culture / Anthony McElligott -- Foreign policy / Wolfgang Elz -- The Reichswehr and the Weimar Republic / William Mulligan -- The Weimar economy / Harold James -- The 'urban republic' / John Bingham -- Women and the politics of gender / Kathleen Canning -- The Weimar welfare system / Young-Sun Hong -- 'Neues Wohnen' : housing and reform / Adelheid von Saldern -- Weimar Jewry / Anthony D. Kauders -- High brow and low brow culture / Karl Christian Führer -- Chancellors of the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933 -- Chronology.