Title The Ruhr crisis, 1923-1924 / Conan Fischer

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : maps 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 Resistance 165 -- 8 THE END OF PASSIVE RESISTANCE 182 -- The Failure of Diplomacy 182 -- Passive Resistance: Demoralization and Compromise 192 -- Strikes, Food Riots, and Surrender on the Police Question 198 -- The Outbreak of 'Passive Resistenz' 206 -- Hyperinflation, Wages Snatches, and the Payroll Crisis 208 -- 9 FROM SURRENDER TO THE ECONOMIC COUNCILS 220 -- The Stresemann Coalition and Diplomatic Impasse 220 -- The Aftermath of Surrender 229 -- Big Business and the Crisis of October 1923 233 -- Rhenish Autonomism and Separatism 243 -- The Franco-German Economic Councils 249 -- 10 FROM THE MICUM AGREEMENT TO THE DAWES PLAN 258 -- The Micum Agreement 258 -- Working Hours and Industrial Relations 269 -- The Road to International Mediation 275 -- CONCLUSION 290 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index Notes Print version record Subject Passive resistance -- Germany -- Ruhr (Region) -- History World War, 1914-1918 -- Reparations Passive resistance War reparations SUBJECT Ruhr (Germany : Region) -- History -- French occupation, 1923-1925. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115787 Germany -- History -- Allied occupation, 1918-1930. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054588 Subject Germany Germany -- Ruhr (Region) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780198208006 0198208006 9780191716607 019171660X

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