{"product_id":"from-recovery-to-catastrophe-municipal-stabilization-and-political-crisis-9781571811042","title":"From Recovery to Catastrophe: Municipal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHistorians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the struggle to revise reparations and control hyperinflation. Focusing primarily on economic aspects is not sufficient, however, the author argues; the financial burden of recovery was only one of several major causes of reaction against the republic. Drawing on material from major German cities, he is able to trace the emergence of strong local activism and of comprehensive and functional policies of recovery on the municipal level which enjoyed broad political backing. Ironically, these same programs that created consensus also contained the potential for destabilization: they unleashed intense debate over the needs of the consumersand the purpose and extent of public spending, and with that of government intervention more generally, which accelerated the fragmentation of bourgeois politics, leading to the final destruction of the Weimar Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"Ben Lieberman has contributed a valuable book on the Weimar welfare state… [the publisher] has done a fine job presenting this work in an attractive package with a full scholarly apparatus.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · German Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"A valuable account ... an interesting and useful book.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · American Historical Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/strong\u003eRecovering from Weimar Recovery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eStabilization and State Expansion: Comprehensive City Planning\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eState Expansion and Democratization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eMunicipal Finance and Destabilization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eCities and Distributional Conflict\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eCities and the Weimar Productivity Debate\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eDefining the Civic Public\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eState and Society: The Contradictions of Recovery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion: \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Recovery to Destabilization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSources and Select Bibliography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tArchival Sources\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNewspapers and Periodicals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSelect General Bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041409401175,"sku":"9781571811042","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571811042.jpg?v=1750950155","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-recovery-to-catastrophe-municipal-stabilization-and-political-crisis-9781571811042","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}