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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798155003321

Autore

Bessel Richard

Titolo

Germany after the First World War / / Richard Bessel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon Press, , 1993

ISBN

0-19-159212-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xv, 325 pages)

Disciplina

306/.0943/09042

Soggetti

Germany Social conditions 1918-1933

Germany History 1918-1933

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Tables; Abbreviations; 1. German Society During the First World War; 2. Wartime Planning for Post-war Demobilization; 3. The Return of the Soldiers; 4. The Demobilization of the Economy; 5. Demobilization and Labour; 6. Demobilization and Housing; 7. Demobilization in the Countryside; 8. The Post-war Transition and the Moral Order; 9. The Legacy of the First World War and Weimar Politics; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A social history of Germany in the years following WWI, this book explores the devastating social and psychological consequences of Germany's defeat and subsequent demobilization offering insights into the sense of dislocation, both personal and national, experienced by Germany and Germans in the 1920s and its damaging legacy for German democracy.