Gustav Stresemann : Weimar's greatest statesman / Jonathan Wright

Author: Wright, Jonathan, 1941-
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 569 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits

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Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; 1. 'The Child is father of the Man': 1878-1901; 2. 'A hunger for power': Business and Politics, 1901-1914; 3. 'For the greater, freer Germany of the future': War, 1914-1918; 4. 'We are and remain independent towards the Right and the Left': Accommodation and Opposition, October 1918-June 1920; 5. 'The Latchkey to Power': Building a Coalition of the Centre, June 1920-December 1922; 6. 'All but political suicide': Ruhr Occupation and Chancellor, 1923. and 7. 'A gleam of light on the otherwise dark horizon': The Dawes Plan and the Road to Locarno, 1924-19258. Locarno and the League, 1925-1926; 9. Peaceful Revision in the Balance, 1927-1928; 10. 1929: Stresemann or Hugenberg?; 11. Conclusion; Maps; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional German political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. Stresemann's personality and talents as a politican held together the coalition that provided the only serious opposition to the Nazi party in the 1920s. On his death this opposition collapsed and along with it the only chance of establishing a stable. and democratic Germany at the heart of a stable Europe. - ;Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figu.

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ISBN

1429422033 (electronic bk.)
9781429422031 (electronic bk.)
9780191515187 (electronic bk.)
0191515183 (electronic bk.)
9780199273294 (pbk.)
9780191608469 (e-book)
0191608467

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Originally published: 2002.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-552) and index.

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