Ruhr Crisis 1923-1924

Zusatztext ... a balanced study ... This book is an absolute must for serious students of the diplomatic history of Europe in general and France in particular during the tragic interwar period. Klappentext This study of the 1923 Ruhr crisis makes plain the devastating human and political cost of France's abortive attempt to extract reparations from Germany by force. Economic ruin combined with moral and political crisis left the Weimar Republic hopelessly compromised. This is one of the great untold tragedies of European history which paradoxically contained the seeds of the contemporary European Union. It is a ground-breaking contribution to the history of inter-war Germany. Zusammenfassung A contribution to the history of inter-war Germany, this book presents a study of the 1923 Ruhr crisis. It gives a comprehensive account of a definitive and mutually self-defeating confrontation, which marked one of the great untold tragedies of European history yet, paradoxically, sowed the seeds of Franco-German reconciliation after 1949. Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From Versailles to the Ruhr Crisis; 2. Occupation; 3. Heavy Industry, Labour, and the Onset of Passive Resistance; 4. Civil Servants and the Onset of Passive Resistance; 5. Social Dislocation during the Ruhr Crisis: Hunger and Evacuation; 6. Social Dislocation during the Ruhr Crisis: Soldiers, Moral Challenges and Education; 7. The High Noon of the Passive Resistance Campaign; 8. The End of Passive Resistance; 9. From Surrender to the Economic Councils; 10. From the Micum Agreements to the Dawes Plan; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

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• Authors: Conan Fischer, Conan (Professor of European History Fischer, Fischer Conan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780198208006
• ISBN: 978-0-19-820800-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Deutschland, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Westeuropa, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Western, History - General History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)