Germany Tried Democracy
Author | : Samuel William Halperin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Samuel William Halperin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. W. Halperin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel William Halperin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Germany |
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Author | : Benjamin Carter Hett |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250162513 |
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen. Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler to seize power? In The Death of Democracy, Benjamin Carter Hett answers these questions, and the story he tells has disturbing resonances for our own time. To say that Hitler was elected is too simple. He would never have come to power if Germany’s leading politicians had not responded to a spate of populist insurgencies by trying to co-opt him, a strategy that backed them into a corner from which the only way out was to bring the Nazis in. Hett lays bare the misguided confidence of conservative politicians who believed that Hitler and his followers would willingly support them, not recognizing that their efforts to use the Nazis actually played into Hitler’s hands. They had willingly given him the tools to turn Germany into a vicious dictatorship. Benjamin Carter Hett is a leading scholar of twentieth-century Germany and a gifted storyteller whose portraits of these feckless politicians show how fragile democracy can be when those in power do not respect it. He offers a powerful lesson for today, when democracy once again finds itself embattled and the siren song of strongmen sounds ever louder.
Author | : Hans Mommsen |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807876070 |
In this definitive analysis of the Weimar Republic, Hans Mommsen surveys the political, social, and economic development of Germany between the end of World War I and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933. His assessment of the German experiment with democracy challenges many long-held assumptions about the course and character of German history. Mommsen argues persuasively that the rise of totalitarianism in Germany was not inevitable but was the result of a confluence of specific domestic and international forces. As long as France and Britain exerted pressure on the new Germany after World War I, the radical Right hesitated to overthrow the constitution. But as international scrutiny decreased with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Weimar regime, totalitarian elements were able to gain the upper hand. At the same time, the world economic crisis of the early 1930s, with its social and political ramifications, further destabilized German democracy. This translation of the original German edition (published in 1989) brings the work to an English-speaking audience for the first time. European History
Author | : Gabriel Abraham Almond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Seven experts have contributed to this study of the past strength and present prospects of German democracy. The first part of the book deals historically with the uphill struggle for democracy, from the times of Bismarck through the hopeful days of the Weimar Republic to the plots of the democratic underground during Hitler's regime. In the second part, the authors discuss Germany's present economic situation. Originally published in 1949. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author | : Ralf Dahrendorf |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393009538 |
Combines personal philosophy, recent sociological studies, and history to illuminate the reasons why liberal democracy never took root in modern Germany
Author | : Rita Chin |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472025783 |
"After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history." ---Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego What happened to "race," race thinking, and racial distinctions in Germany, and Europe more broadly, after the demise of the Nazi racial state? This book investigates the afterlife of "race" since 1945 and challenges the long-dominant assumption among historians that it disappeared from public discourse and policy-making with the defeat of the Third Reich and its genocidal European empire. Drawing on case studies of Afro-Germans, Jews, and Turks---arguably the three most important minority communities in postwar Germany---the authors detail continuities and change across the 1945 divide and offer the beginnings of a history of race and racialization after Hitler. A final chapter moves beyond the German context to consider the postwar engagement with "race" in France, Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands, where waves of postwar, postcolonial, and labor migration troubled nativist notions of national and European identity. After the Nazi Racial State poses interpretative questions for the historical understanding of postwar societies and democratic transformation, both in Germany and throughout Europe. It elucidates key analytical categories, historicizes current discourse, and demonstrates how contemporary debates about immigration and integration---and about just how much "difference" a democracy can accommodate---are implicated in a longer history of "race." This book explores why the concept of "race" became taboo as a tool for understanding German society after 1945. Most crucially, it suggests the social and epistemic consequences of this determined retreat from "race" for Germany and Europe as a whole. Rita Chin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Heide Fehrenbach is Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. Geoff Eley is Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan. Atina Grossmann is Professor of History at Cooper Union. Cover illustration: Human eye, © Stockexpert.com.
Author | : Carl E. Schorske |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674351257 |
No political parties of present-day Germany are separated by a wider gulf than the two parties of labor, one democratic and reformist, the other totalitarian and socialist-revolutionary. Social Democrats and Communists today face each other as bitter political enemies across the front lines of the Cold War; yet they share a common origin in the Social Democratic Party of Imperial Germany. How did they come to go separate ways? By what process did the old party break apart? How did the prewar party prepare the ground for the dissolution of the labor movement in World War I, and for the subsequent extension of Leninism into Germany? To answer these questions is the purpose of Carl Schorske's study.
Author | : Frank Biess |
Publisher | : Emotions in History |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198714181 |
While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in the democratization of West Germany, where fears and anxieties about the country's catastrophic past and uncertain future both undermined democracy and stabilized the emerging Federal Republic.