20TH CENTURY GERMANY :: 2001

• Paperback Book
• Edited by Mary Fulbrook
• Over 300 pages
• Copyright © 2001 by Edward Arnold

" The period from defeat in the First World War to defeat in the Second World War saw Germany experience two political extremes: its attempt at democracy, with the abdication of the Kaiser and the proclamation of a republic on 9 November 1918, and one of the most reprehensible dictatorships of the modern age, following the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933. With the unleashing of a second world war, and the purposeful mass murder of around six million human beings in unprecedented industrial genocide, the collapse from democracy into dictatorship has understandably aroused the most virulent historical controversies. The years since 1945 have to an extent been lived in the shadow of the earlier period, but also of course in their own right with their own peculiarities, none more pronounced than the creation of two Germanies, the FRG and GDR, one democracy, one dictatorship, ideological foes in the Cold War. The controversies attaching to the later period are (as yet?) less heated but the questions are no less insistent. "

" It is extraordinarily difficult for any single historian to do justice to changes so varied, complex and controversial. Instead, in this book an international team of scholars, experts in their fields, have collaborated to produce an innovative work that blends the basic guidance of a conventional textbook with analysis of central issues in political, social, economic and cultural history. "

Contents include:

" List of maps
List of figures
List of tables

Introduction Mary Fulbrook

PART I: 1918 - 1945
1. Germany from war to dictatorship Richard Bessel
2. The German inter-war economy: political choice versus economic decision Niall Ferguson
3. Culture and society in Weimar Germany: the impact of modernism and mass culture Elizabeth Harvey
4. The rise of the Nazis: Sonderweg or spanner in the works? Jill Stephenson
5. Hitler and the Nazi dictatorship Ian Kershaw
6. From Blitzkrieg to total war Omer Bartov
7. The 'final solution' Nicholas Stargardt

PART II: Germany since 1945
8. Division and stability: the Federal Republic of Germany 1949-1989 Mark Roseman
9. The failed experiment: East German communism Mark Allinson
10. Ossis and Wessis: the creation of two German societies, 1945-1990 Mary Fulbrook
11. Culture, history and national identity in the two Germanies, 1945-1990 Erica Carter
12. The end of GDR: revolution and voluntary annexation Jonathan Osmond

Chronology: Germany, 1918-1990
Notes on the contributors
Index "

This book is in very good condition with minor wear to the cover.
There are several pages with underlining, highlighting, and notations written in the margins.
No torn or ripped pages.

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