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Author: Anne Orde
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-18
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521892575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of the political economy of Europe after 1919.
Author: Luc Verpoest
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9462702500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe challenges of post-war recovery from social and political reform to architectural design In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' earlier role and degree of involvement in the war but were without exception enormous. The contributors to this book analyse how this was not only a matter of rebuilding ravaged cities and destroyed infrastructure, but also of repairing people’s damaged bodies and upended daily lives, and rethinking and reforming societal, economic and political structures. These processes took place against the backdrop of mass mourning and remembrance, political violence and economic crisis. At the same time, the post-war tabula rasa offered many opportunities for innovation in various areas of society, from social and political reform to architectural design. The wide scope of post-war recovery and revival is reflected in the different sections of this book: rebuild, remember, repair, and reform. It offers insights into post-war revival in Western European countries such as Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, as well as into how their efforts were perceived outside of Europe, for instance in Argentina and the United States.
Author: Bruce Kent
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780198202226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive account of the dispute over who should "pay" for World War I--a dispute which poisoned international relations, destabilized the world's financial system, and contributed to the rise of the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s. Kent argues that the victors had no coherent policy of eliminating Germany as a commercial or strategic threat, and that the illusion of indemnity was fostered by British, French, and American statesmen to both conceal the financial implications of the war and defuse radical agitation for heavy taxation.
Author: Stephen Broadberry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-09-29
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1139448358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.
Author: Mark Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1317318048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author: John Maynard Keynes
Publisher: Simon Publications LLC
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781931541138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world.
Author: Burkhard Olschowsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783110597158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume considers the period starting with the Bolshevik revolution and the final stages of the First World War up to the year 1923. This critical period saw the end of hyperinflation and the creation of a "New Europe," ensuring a degree of c
Author: Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 0674063066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage-political, social, economic, and diplomatic-to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert's interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in any analysis of strategic policy of understanding Clausewitz's "political conditions of war."
Author: Alan S. Milward
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2005-11-03
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780415379229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Lothar Kettenacker
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0857452231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of “making the world safe for democracy” was not shared by millions of people in many Western countries. Thinking about this controversy inspired the present volume, which takes a closer look at how society responded to the outbreaks and conclusions of the First and Second World Wars. In order to examine this relationship between the conduct of wars and public opinion, leading scholars trace the moods and attitudes of the people of four Western countries (Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) before, during and after the crucial moments of the two major conflicts of the twentieth century. Focusing less on politics and more on how people experienced the wars, this volume shows how the distinction between enthusiasm for war and concern about its consequences is rarely clear-cut.
