Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann

Author: Jonathan Wright

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2004-09-16

Total Pages: 2783

ISBN-13: 0191608467

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Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading loyalty to the values of liberalism and nationalism. This enabled him in time both to adjust to defeat and revolution and to recognize in the Republic the only basis on which Germans could unite, and in European cooperation the only way to avoid a new war. His attempt to build a stable Germany as an equal power in a stable Europe throws an important light on German history in a critical time. Hitler was the beneficiary of his failure but, so long as he was alive, Stresemann offered Germans a clear alternative to the Nazis. Jonathan Wright's fascinating new study is the first modern biography of Stresemann to appear in English or German.

Locarno Diplomacy
Locarno Diplomacy

Author: Jon Jacobson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1400869617

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The Locarno Conference of 1925 and the five treaties concluded there have been seen as the turning point of the interwar years, i.e., Germany's acceptance of the 1919 peace settlement and the beginning of a new era of peace. Studying the documentary evidence, much of it available only recently, Jon Jacobson explores the personalities and politics of Locarno and offers a historical interpretation and synthesis of a critical decade in European diplomacy. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic

Author: Eberhard Kolb

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780415344418

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The Weimar Republic provides both a clear historical narrative of this critical period in German history and a detailed analysis of the scholarly research in the field

Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers
Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers

Author: Steven Ward

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1107182360

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Argues that rising powers challenge international order when their status ambitions seem to be unjustly and permanently blocked.

Germany, 1871-1945
Germany, 1871-1945

Author: Raffael Scheck

Publisher: Berg

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 184788458X

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Germany, 1871-1945 presents an original, lucid, and thought-provoking history. Its aim is to inspire readers to weigh the historical evidence. At the end of the Second World War, the first unified German state collapsed, a disintegration with European and global ramifications. Ever since, historians have sought to explain what went wrong in German history. Many have focused on the violence which forged unification; others have highlighted the clash of authoritarian, anti-democratic, and anti-Semitic traditions with rapid industrialization and modernization. Germany, 1871-1945 presents a pragmatic interpretation of German history, from the unification to the end of the Nazi regime. This more open approach acknowledges the strong trend in German society towards modernization and democratization, particularly before 1914, while also highlighting the factors which propelled Germany toward World War I. The rise of the Nazis also demands a close analysis of the economic and political instability of the 1920s and early 1930s. Finally, a detailed assessment of the Third Reich explains how the regime's early successes fostered a loyalty and acceptance that remained hard to shake until disaster was obvious and unavoidable.