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Bread and Democracy in Germany

Author : Alexander Gerschenkron
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801495861
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Bread and Democracy in Germany written by Alexander Gerschenkron and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in its field, Bread and Democracy in Germany has been widely praised since its publication in 1943 for its account of German political and economic development. In his preface, Alexander Gerschenkron states: "The primary purpose of this study is to show, first, how, before 1914, the machinery of Junker protectionism is agriculture, coupled with the Junker philosophy... delayed the development of democratic institutions in Germany; and second, how the Junkers contrived to escape almost unscathed from the German revolution of 1918 and how this fact contributed to the constitutional weakness and subsequent disintegration of the Weimar Republic." Emphasizing the importance of the problem of German agriculture in its relation to democratic reconstruction, Gerschenkron asserts that "the political attitude of farmers in several European countries had a decisive influence on the fate of European democracy. Nowhere is this more true than in Germany. The German farmers bear their full share of responsibility for the advent of fascism in that country."

German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism

Author : Donna Harsch
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861928
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism written by Donna Harsch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Social Democracy and the Rise of Nazism explores the failure of Germany's largest political party to stave off the Nazi threat to the Weimar republic. In 1928 members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) were elected to the chancellorship and thousands of state and municipal offices. But despite the party's apparent strengths, in 1933 Social Democracy succumbed to Nazi power without a fight. Previous scholarship has blamed this reversal of fortune on bureaucratic paralysis, but in this revisionist evaluation, Donna Harsch argues that the party's internal dynamics immobilized the SPD. Harsch looks closely at Social Democratic ideology, structure, and political culture, examining how each impinged upon the party's response to economic disaster, parliamentary crisis, and the Nazis. She considers political and organizational interplay within the SPD as well as interaction between the party, the Socialist trade unions, and the republican defense league. Conceding that lethargy and conservatism hampered the SPD, Harsch focuses on strikingly inventive ideas put forward by various Social Democrats to address the republic's crisis. She shows how the unresolved competition among these proposals blocked innovations that might have thwarted Nazism. Originally published in 1993. 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.

Democracy in Crisis

Author : Robert Goodrich
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469665557
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Crisis written by Robert Goodrich and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy in Crisis explores one of the world's greatest failures of democracy in Germany during the so-called Weimar Republic, 1919–33—a failure that led to the Third Reich. For more than a decade after World War I, liberalism, nationalism, conservatism, social democracy, Christian democracy, communism, fascism, and every variant of these movements struggled for power. Although Germany's constitutional framework boldly enshrined liberal democratic values, the political spectrum was so broad and fully represented that a stable parliamentary majority required constant negotiations. The compromises that were made subsequently alienated citizens, who were embittered by national humiliation in the war and the ensuing treaty and struggling to survive economic turmoil and rapidly changing cultural norms. As positions hardened, the door was opened to radical alternatives. In this game, students, as delegates of the Reichstag (parliament), must contend with intense parliamentary wrangling, uncontrollable world events, street fights, assassinations, and insurrections. The game begins in late 1929, just after the U.S. stock market crash, as the Reichstag deliberates the Young Plan (a revision to the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I). Students belonging to various political parties must debate these matters and more as the combination of economic stress, political gridlock, and foreign pressure turn Germany into a volcano on the verge of eruption.

German Social Democracy, 1905-1917

Author : Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674351257
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Book Synopsis German Social Democracy, 1905-1917 by : Carl E. Schorske

Download or read book German Social Democracy, 1905-1917 written by Carl E. Schorske and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Struggle for Democracy in Germany

Author : Gabriel A. Almond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807878132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Democracy in Germany written by Gabriel A. Almond and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the artistic development of renowned potter Toshiko Takaezu, this masterful study celebrates and analyzes an artist who holds a significant place in the post-World War II craft movement in America.

Democracy in Western Germany

Author : Gordon R. Smith
Publisher : Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Western Germany written by Gordon R. Smith and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death of Democracy

Author : Benjamin Carter Hett
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250162513
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Democracy written by Benjamin Carter Hett and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Energy Democracy

Author : Craig Morris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319318918
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Energy Democracy written by Craig Morris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore how, by taking ownership of energy efficiency at a local level, community groups are key actors in the bottom-up fight against climate change. Individually, citizens might install solar panels on their roofs, but citizen groups can do much more: community wind farms, local heat supply, walkable cities and more. This book offers evidence that the transition to renewables is a one-time opportunity to strengthen communities and democratize the energy sector – in Germany and around the world.

Democracy in Germany

Author : Fritz Erler
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Germany written by Fritz Erler and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Democracy in Germany".

Society and Democracy in Germany

Author : Ralf Dahrendorf
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393009538
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Society and Democracy in Germany by : Ralf Dahrendorf

Download or read book Society and Democracy in Germany written by Ralf Dahrendorf and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1979 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines personal philosophy, recent sociological studies, and history to illuminate the reasons why liberal democracy never took root in modern Germany

The Crucible of German Democracy

Author : Robert E. Norton
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161598288
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Crucible of German Democracy written by Robert E. Norton and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Norton offers the first comprehensive study in any language devoted to Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923) and his activities during the First World War. Troeltsch was one of the most famous figures of his day, a renowned historian, philosopher, sociologist, and theologian. But he did not just comment on events, he also actively served in a number of public roles before, during, and after the war. Throughout the last decade of his life, Troeltsch was a central participant in many of the most significant political debates and struggles that took place in his country, and in the process he became one of the most forceful and committed proponents of democracy in Germany. Tracing the gradual rise and growth of democratic thought during the war, Robert E. Norton shows how democracy itself emerged as the pivotal question within German domestic politics around which everything else came to revolve. In this process, Ernst Troeltsch emerged as one of the most eloquent and persuasive voices advocating for democracy and peace, and always promoting the ideals of freedom and human dignity for all peoples.

Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century

Author : Paul Nolte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110492792
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century written by Paul Nolte and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic democracy in the 20th century - this concept goes beyond the idea of an American civilizing mission in Europe after two World Wars, and certainly beyond the notion of re-educating Germans, and making them fit for Western institutions after Nazism. As democracy is being contested anew in the beginning of the 21st century, a much more complicated landscape of democracy since 1900 emerges. Transfer was not a one-way-street, and patterns of conflict and transformation affected both American and European political societies. American democracy may not be reduced to a resilient defense of original traditions, while the narrative of German democracy is more than redemption from catastrophe. The essays in this volume contribute to a new history of transatlantic democracy that accounts for its manifold experiences and constant renegotiations, up to the current challenges of American and European populism.

Germany Tried Democracy

Author : Samuel William Halperin
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393002805
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Germany Tried Democracy written by Samuel William Halperin and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1965 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the chaotic brand of democracy that characterized the Weimar Republic begins with background on Bismarck's empire and details political developments that led to Hitler's rise to power

The Arts of Democratization

Author : Jennifer M. Kapczynski
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132911
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Democratization written by Jennifer M. Kapczynski and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How postwar West German democracy was styled through word, image, sound, performance, and gathering

The Struggle for Democracy in Germany

Author : Eugene Newton Anderson
Publisher : Russell & Russell Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Democracy in Germany written by Eugene Newton Anderson and published by Russell & Russell Publishers. This book was released on 1965 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Terror and Democracy in West Germany

Author : Karrin Hanshew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139560778
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Terror and Democracy in West Germany written by Karrin Hanshew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era. After 1945, West Germans answered long-standing doubts about democracy's viability and fears of authoritarian state power with a 'militant democracy' empowered against its enemies and a popular commitment to anti-fascist resistance. In the 1970s, these postwar solutions brought Germans into open conflict, fighting to protect democracy from both terrorism and state overreaction. Drawing on diverse sources, Karrin Hanshew shows how Germans, faced with a state of emergency and haunted by their own history, managed to learn from the past and defuse this adversarial dynamic. This negotiation of terror helped them to accept the Federal Republic of Germany as a stable, reformable polity and to reconceive of democracy's defence as part of everyday politics.

Learning Democracy

Author : Brian M. Puaca
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455682
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Learning Democracy written by Brian M. Puaca and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on the history of West Germany's educational system has traditionally portrayed the postwar period of Allied occupation as a failure and the following decades as a time of pedagogical stagnation. Two decades after World War II, however, the Federal Republic had become a stable democracy, a member of NATO, and a close ally of the West. Had the schools really failed to contribute to this remarkable transformation of German society and political culture? This study persuasively argues that long before the protest movements of the late 1960s, the West German educational system was undergoing meaningful reform from within. Although politicians and intellectual elites paid little attention to education after 1945, administrators, teachers, and pupils initiated significant changes in schools at the local level. The work of these actors resulted in an array of democratic reforms that signaled a departure from the authoritarian and nationalistic legacies of the past. The establishment of exchange programs between the United States and West Germany, the formation of student government organizations and student newspapers, the publication of revised history and civics textbooks, the expansion of teacher training programs, and the creation of a Social Studies curriculum all contributed to the advent of a new German educational system following World War II. The subtle, incremental reforms inaugurated during the first two postwar decades prepared a new generation of young Germans for their responsibilities as citizens of a democratic state.