The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic
The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and teachers to make sense of the contradictions and complexities of Germany's experiments with democracy and modern society in this period. The contributions emphasize the historical openness of Germany's first republic, which was more than just the coming of the Third Reich. The thirty-three chapters, all written by leading experts, contain information and interpretation based on cutting-edge scholarship, and together provides an unsurpassed panorama of the Weimar Republic.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic
The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and teachers to make sense of the contradictions and complexities of Germany's experiments with democracy and modern society in this period. The contributions emphasize the historical openness of Germany's first republic, which was more than just the coming of the Third Reich. The thirty-three chapters, all written by leading experts, contain information and interpretation based on cutting-edge scholarship, and together provides an unsurpassed panorama of the Weimar Republic.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and teachers to make sense of the contradictions and complexities of Germany's experiments with democracy and modern society in this period. The contributions emphasize the historical openness of Germany's first republic, which was more than just the coming of the Third Reich. The thirty-three chapters, all written by leading experts, contain information and interpretation based on cutting-edge scholarship, and together provides an unsurpassed panorama of the Weimar Republic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198845775
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/06/2022
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 848
Product dimensions: 7.10(w) x 9.80(h) x 2.10(d)

About the Author

Nadine Rossol, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Essex,Benjamin Ziemann, Professor of Modern German History, University of Sheffield

Nadine Rossol is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Essex. She is currently Deputy Dean of Partnerships, and has held fellowships at the University of Limerick and the Free University Berlin.

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern Germany History at the University of Sheffield. He has held fellowships and visiting professorships at the University of Oslo, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of York, and the University of Tübingen.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Nadine Rossol and Benjamin ZiemannPart I: Key Events and Political Developments2. The German Revolution of 1918/19, Christopher Dillon3. The Period of Inflation, 1919-1923, Martin H. Geyer4. Coalition-Building and Political Fragmentation, 1924-1930, Matthew Stibbe5. From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Fall of Weimar and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1930-33, Larry Eugene JonesPart II: Polity, Politics, and Policies6. The Weimar Constitution, Peter C. Caldwell7. Nationalism and Nationhood, Erin Hochman8. Elections, Election Campaigns, and Democracy, Thomas Mergel9. Federalism, Regionalism, and the Construction of Spaces, Siegfried Weichlein10. The Reichswehr and Armament Policies, Benjamin Ziemann11. Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of a Revisionist State, Jonathan Wright12. Republican Groups, Ideas, and Identities, Nadine Rossol13. Social Policy in the Weimar Republic, Karl-Christian FührerPart III: Parties and their Constituencies14. Liberalism, Philipp Müller15. Social Democrats and Communists in Weimar Germany: A Divided Working-Class Movement, Joachim C. Häberlen16. The Centre Party, Conservatives, and the Radical Right, Shelley Baranowski17. National Socialism, Daniel Siemens18. Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic, Susanne Wein and Martin UlmerPart IV: Economy and Society19. The Overstretched Economy: Industry and Financial Services, Jan-Otmar Hesse and Christian Marx20. The Middle Classes, Moritz Föllmer21. The Industrial Working Class, Pamela Swett22. Agriculture and Rural Society, Benjamin Ziemann23. Weimar Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction, Ute Planert24. Transnational Visions of Modernity: America and the Soviet Union, Mary Nolan25. German Jews in the Weimar Republic, Sharon Gillerman26. Youth and Youth Movements: Relations, Challenges, Developments, Barbara StambolisPart V: Culture27. Mass Culture, Jochen Hung28. German Literature 1918-1933, Helmuth Kiesel29. Architecture, Town Planning and Large-Scale Housing Estates: Challenges, Visions, and Proposed Solutions, Beate Störtkuhl30. Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics, Todd Weir and Udi Greenberg31. The Humanities and Social Sciences, Lutz Raphael32. Visual Weimar: The Iconography of Social and Political Identities, Kerry Wallach33. The Presence of the First World War in Weimar Culture, Claudia SiebrechtIndex
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