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Author Peukert, Detlev.

Title The Weimar Republic : the crisis of classical modernity / Detlev J.K. Peukert ; translated by Richard Deveson
Edition First American edition
Published New York : Hill and Wang, 1992

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Description xv, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction. The Weimar Republic and the continuity of German history -- New directions, 1918-23. Old legacies and a new start, 1918-1919 ; The post-war crisis, 1920-23 -- Modernization and its tensions. Generation gaps and emancipatory struggles ; The post-war economy : rationalization and structural crisis ; The welfare state : expansion and crisis ; Social milieux and political formations ; Mass culture and the neue Sachlichkeit ; "Americanism" versus Kulturkritik -- Deceptive stability, 1924-9. Revisionist alternatives in foreign policy ; The illusion of domestic stability ; The fragmentation of the political culture -- Total crisis, 1930-33. The world economic crisis ; The erosion of options -- Review : the crisis of classical modernity
Analysis Germany
Politics History, 1918-1933
Notes Translation of: Die Weimarer Republik
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [314]-319 and index
Notes In English translated from the German
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054589
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054639
LC no. 91042740
ISBN 0809096749
Other Titles Weimarer Republik. English