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  • The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State

    The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994)

    by Manfred G. Schmidt, Gerhard A. Ritter ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the “Social Union”, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt’s analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities and differences between the welfare state in East and West Germany as well as in other East European ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • After Hitler

    Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995

    by Konrad H. Jarausch ...
    In the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Hitler's Social Revolution

    by David Schoenbaum ...
    The author attempts to analyze Hitler's appeal to German farmers, workers, businessmen, industrialists, women and youth. Beginning with Germany's social situation after World War I, he demonstrates how Hitler improvised a programme that claimed to offer a classless society. ... Read more

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  • The Weimar Republic

    by Eberhard Kolb, Eberhard Kolb ...
    Translated by P. S. Falla ...
    In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the international context of the inter-war period. In the second part he surveys and analyses scholarly research in the field which sheds light on the problems and controversies of the period in home and foreign ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Weimar Republic

    Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936

    by Professor Anthony McElligott ...
    “McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy.” Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UKThis study challenges conventional approaches to the history of the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Selling the Economic Miracle

    Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957

    by Mark E. Spicka ...
    Series Book 18 - Monographs in German History
    Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of ... Read more

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  • The Thanks of the Fatherland

    German Veterans After the Second World War

    by James M. Diehl ...
    An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany’s defeat. The primary focus is on the major pieces of veterans' legislation passed in the early years of the German Federal Republic. Historical context is provided by the first two chapters and the conclusion, which compares and contrasts the fate of veterans and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Nazi Voter

    The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919-1933

    by Thomas Childers ...
    The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency — how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to analyze each national election of the Weimar era, Childres offers a new and challenging interpretation of who voted for Hitler’s NSDAP and why. He also ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Women in the Weimar Republic

    by Helen Boak ...
    This book is the first comprehensive survey of women in the Weimar Republic, exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy, politics and society. Taking the First World War as a starting point, this book explores the great changes in the lives, expectations, and perceptions of German women, with new opportunities in employment, education and political life and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Between Reform and Revolution

    German Socialism and Communism from 1840 to 1990

    Edited by David E. Barclay, Eric D. Weitz ...
    The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume. Whereas previous investigations have tended to focus on political, intellectual and biographical aspects, this book captures, for the first time, the methodological and thematic diversity and richness of current work on the history of the German working class ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany

    by Dennis Sweeney ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of trade unions, Saar employers were revered for their system of factory organization, which was both ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Formation of the Nazi Constituency 1919-1933 (RLE Nazi Germany & Holocaust)

    by Thomas Childers ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
    In the years preceding publication of this book in 1986 much progress was made in identifying the social sources of support for Hitler’s NSDAP and in determining the tactics employed by the party to mobilise its constituency at grass roots level. It has emerged that the Nazi’s roots were far more diverse than previously assumed, extending beyond the lower middle class to encompass both the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD