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Description
This concise examination of the Weimar Republic synthesizes the key debates and scholarship in the field for a student audience. Providing extensive coverage of the increasingly prominent topics of gender, sexuality and popular culture, Christopher Dillon offers an up-to-date account of the Republic that moves beyond a Berlin-centric approach to a more holistic presentation of Germany during the period. The text is also rich with pedagogical features, including key terms text boxes, a glossary and numerous statistics and illustrations.
Beginning with the November 1918 revolution, The Weimar Republic argues that the stories Germans told one another about the past war were more important to the course of the Weimar Republic than the history of the First World War itself. It also pulls away from any conclusions about the Republic that are sometimes drawn in the shadow of the Nazi party's subsequent rise. In doing so, the book casts crucial common misconceptions aside, enabling you to more fully understand the Weimar Republic in its own context in the process.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Backing Ebert (1918-1920)
2. Republican Cultures (1920-1930)
3. Antirepublican Cultures (1920-1930)
4. Democracy in Depression (1930-1933)
Conclusion: A History of Democracy
Notes
Selected Further Reading
Index
Product details
| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350260900 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 20 bw illus |
| Series | German History in Focus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Christopher Dillon brings us an adept synthesis of recent scholarship on this vital period, exploring the history and legacy of Germany's first democracy from local and transnational as well as national angles. In so doing he demonstrates that Weimar's rich political culture was shaped as much by pro-republicans and champions of integration through diversity as by violent critics of parliamentary democracy on the far left and extreme right.
Matthew Stibbe, Professor of Modern European History, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
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Persuasively argued and evocatively written, this is a state-of-the-art introduction to Weimar Germany. Christopher Dillon excels at relating the history of a vibrant as well as fragile democracy that was by no means doomed to fail.
Moritz Föllmer, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam, Holland

























