Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Herbert, Ulrich
• Fowkes, Ben[Übersetzer]

Titel

A history of twentieth-century Germany

Ort / Verlag

New York : Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2019]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Kein Open Access
• Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years. But it has also boasted a strong welfare state, affluence, liberalization and globalization, a successful democracy, and the longest period of peace in European history. In this award-winning volume of German history, Ulrich Herbert analyzes the trajectory of German politics and culture during a century of extremes.
• Cover -- A History of Twentieth-Century Germany -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One 1870-1918 -- 1 Germany around 1900: Progress and Its Costs -- A Booming Economy -- The Reinvention of the World -- The Dynamic of Social Change -- Enthusiasm for Progress and a Crisis of Direction -- Radical Answers to the Crisis of Bourgeois Society -- 2 The New Reich -- Bismarck's Legacy -- The End of the Liberal Era -- The New Course -- Reich and Weltreich -- Building the Fleet and 'World Policy' -- Stability and Crisis -- Radical Nationalism -- Before the War -- 3 The Power of War -- The War Begins -- The Spirit and Ideas of 1914 -- War of Attrition -- The War Economy -- Political Confrontation at Home -- The Effects of the October Revolution -- The March Offensive and the German Collapse -- The First World War in German History -- Part Two 1919-33 -- 4 Revolution and Republic -- The Revolution and the Movement for Constitutional Democracy -- The Left Rises in Revolt -- Versailles and Its Consequences -- The Kapp Putsch and the War on the Ruhr -- Reparations and the Policy of Fulfilment -- A Topsy-​Turvy World -- The Crisis Becomes Total -- A Precarious Stabilisation -- 5 Germany around 1926: Between War and Crisis -- The Economy between Crises -- Governance through Welfare Policy -- Classes, Genders and Generations -- The Culture of the Metropolis -- Cultural Critique and Alternative Visions -- Perspectives for the Future -- 6 The Destruction of the Republic -- The Crisis of the Parliamentary System -- The World Economic Crisis -- The Radical Left -- The Radical Right -- The Rise of the NSDAP and the Disempowerment of Parliament -- Variants of Dictatorship -- The Decision for Hitler -- Part Three 1933-45 -- 7 The Dynamics of Violence -- 'Seizure of Power' -- Safeguarding the Dictatorship -- Anti-​Jewish Policies.