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Krupp : a history of the legendary German firm / / Harold James



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Autore: James Harold <1956-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Krupp : a history of the legendary German firm / / Harold James Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina: 338.7/6691420943
Soggetto topico: Steel industry and trade - Germany - History
Soggetto non controllato: Alfred Krupp
Alfried Krupp
Bertha Krupp
Berthold Beitz
English steel
Friedrich Alfred Krupp
Friedrich Krupp
German Empire
German industrial culture
German industrial recovery
German steel industry
Germany
Gustav Krupp
Gustav von Bohlen
Helene Amalie Krupp
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Krupp company
Krupp directors
Krupp family
Krupp
Kruppianer
NIROSTA
Nazi Germany
Nazi policy
Nazism
Nuremberg trials
Therese Krupp
Third Reich
Wilhelmine Germany
Wilhelminism
World War I.
World War II
armament
armaments
business development
business ethic
business expansion
business
corporate culture
demilitarization
diplomacy
economic depression
entrepreneur
entrepreneurship
family affairs
family business
financial crisis
financial incentives
globalization
interwar years
modern Germany
modernity
nationalist management
naval rearmament
political engagement
postwar Germany
profitability
rearmament
reinvention
social philosophy
steel industry
steel mill
steel production
war criminal
work ethics
Classificazione: NW 6015
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: a nation and a name -- The decline of family : the fall from bourgeois respectability -- Man of steel : Alfred Krupp -- Man of science : Friedrich Alfred Krupp -- Man of diplomacy : Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach -- Man of tradition : family and firm in the Weimar Republic -- Man of power : Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach -- Man of the world : Berthold Beitz -- Appendix 1: Family tree -- Appendix 2: Business results, 1811-2010.
Sommario/riassunto: The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a nonprofit foundation. Krupp founded a small steel mill in 1811, which established the basis for one of the largest and most important companies in the world by the end of the century. Famously loyal to its highly paid workers, it rejected an exclusive focus on profit, but the company also played a central role in the armament of Nazi Germany and the firm's head was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Yet after the war Krupp managed to rebuild itself and become a symbol of Germany once again--this time open, economically successful, and socially responsible. Books on Krupp tend to either denounce it as a diabolical enterprise or celebrate its technical ingenuity. In contrast, James presents a balanced account, showing that the owners felt ambivalent about the company's military connection even while becoming more and more entangled in Germany's aggressive politics during the imperial era and the Third Reich. By placing the story of Krupp and its owners in a wide context, James also provides new insights into the political, social, and economic history of modern Germany.
Titolo autorizzato: Krupp  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-43976-X
9786613439765
1-4008-4186-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814918603321
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