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1 online resource |
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Cover; A Vision of Europe: Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression, 1929-1932; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1: Tentative Beginnings: France, Germany, and Intimations of Rapprochement; Contrasting Perspectives; The Opening Gambits; 2: From Thoiry to the Young Plan: Cautious Progress and the Death of Stresemann; Diplomatic Headwinds and Unofficial Initiatives; The Grautoff Initiative; Franco-German Relations on the Eve of the Hague Conferences; The First Hague Conference; Julius Curtius and the Second Hague Conference |
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3: Germany, France, and the Briand PlanThe (Problematic) Launch of the Briand Plan; Franco-German Exchanges; Complications and Upsets; The Rhineland Evacuation and Added Tensions; The 1930 Reichstag Election: Challenges and Reassurance; 4: From Paris to Berlin: Official Visits and the Origins of the Franco-German Commission; Enduring Tensions and the Austro-German Customs Union; Brüning in Paris; The Catholic Connection; Hopeful Signs: The Prussian Plebiscite and Economic Detente; Preparations for the Berlin Ministerial Conference; 5: Berlin and the Creation of the Franco-German Commission |
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A Successful ConferenceLatour in Berlin; Creating the Commission; An Imminent Trade War and the Quota Issue; Growing Discord in the Commission; Political Instability and Diplomatic Stalemate; 6: Breakdown: The Stresemann Memoirs Scandal and Wounds that Failed to Heal; A Difficult Climate; Alsatian Sensitivities; The Stresemann Memoirs Scandal; Impasse; Conclusion; Bibliography; ARCHIVAL SOURCES; AA: Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts; AA: Akten der früheren Deutschen Botschaft in Paris 1817-1944; MAE: Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; Série Z. Europe: Allemagne |
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Série Y. InternationalePUBLISHED DOCUMENTARY SOURCES; SECONDARY WORKS CITED; Index |
| Summary |
This volume investigates and re-evaluates Franco-German relations during the inter-war Great Depression, providing a fresh understanding of Franco-German conflict and cooperation during the past century and in the process demonstrating that present-day European integration, based around the Paris-Berlin axis, has far deeper roots than previously imagined |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Germany
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Depressions -- 1929 -- France
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Depressions
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France -- Foreign relations -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Germany -- Foreign relations -- France -- History -- 20th century
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France
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0191663808 |
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9780191663802 |
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9780191755613 |
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0191755613 |
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