Colin Storer

A Short History of the Weimar Republic (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fourteen-year period of democracy was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and the rise of extremist political movements. Yet at the same time a vibrant cultural scene flourished, which continues to influence the international art world, whether indirectly via the enduring popularity of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Novels and Bob Fosse's Cabaret, or in more concrete ways through the aesthetics of Expressionism and the Bauhaus movement. Historians have seen the Weimar Republic as a democratic experiment set between the authoritarian monarchism of the Wilhelmine Empire and the tyranny of the Third Reich, but contemporaries were not so pessimistic. While some disparaged the new democratic system and fulminated against Weimar cosmopolitanism and 'decadence', most praised attempts to bring social improvement and the emancipation of women, or celebrated the exciting forays into the avant-garde of Weimar's artistic elite.
In the fields of visual art, literature, theatre, cinema, music and architecture - not to mention chemistry, physics and psychology - Germany became a world leader during the 1920s, while her perilous political and economic position ensured that no US or European statesman could afford to ignore her. Weimar Germany was thus much more than merely a cul-de-sac off Germany's difficult 'special path' to modernity, it was a key period in German and European history whose influence continues to be felt. Incorporating original research and a synthesis of the existing historiography, this book will provide students and a general readership with a clear and concise introduction to the history of the first German Republic. It highlights key concepts and themes in the study of German history in general and the Weimar Republic in particular.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857723840
• Artikelnr.: 41141509

Autorenporträt

Colin Storer is Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European History at the University of Warwick, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Prussia, Germany and the Crucible of War
Timeline Chapter 1: Years of Crisis: 1918-23 Chapter2: The Struggle for
Moderation: Weimar Political Culture Chapter 3: The Great Inflation and
Weimar Economics Chapter 4: Revisionism and the Search for Stability:
Weimar Foreign Policy Chapter 5: Weimar Society and Culture Chapter 6:
Crisis and Collapse, 1929-33 Conclusion: Did Weimar Fail? Appendices Notes
Further Reading Index

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Prussia, Germany and the Crucible of WarTimelineChapter 1: Years of Crisis: 1918-23Chapter2: The Struggle for Moderation: Weimar Political CultureChapter 3: The Great Inflation and Weimar EconomicsChapter 4: Revisionism and the Search for Stability: Weimar Foreign PolicyChapter 5: Weimar Society and CultureChapter 6: Crisis and Collapse, 1929-33Conclusion: Did Weimar Fail?AppendicesNotesFurther ReadingIndex

Rezensionen

This book is a good investment. And while the book is really great for undergraduate students, I believe graduate students and specialists alike will learn a lot from it. Storer knows his stuff and does a good job covering a really big secondary literature concisely and equitably. Brendan Fay, Assistant Professor, Emporia State University, USA