{"product_id":"modernizing-bavaria-the-politics-of-franz-josef-strauss-and-the-csu-1949-1969-9781845451233","title":"Modernizing Bavaria: The Politics of Franz Josef","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 1949 Bavaria was not only the largest and best known but also the poorest, most agricultural, and most industrially backward region of Germany. It was further its most politically conservative region. The largest political party in Bavaria was the Christian Social Union (CSU), an extremely conservative, even reactionary, regional party. In the ensuing twenty years, the leaders of the CSU's small liberal wing (in particular Franz Josef Strauss, long-time party chair and the most colorful and polarizing politician in postwar Germany) broke with the anti-industrial traditions of Bavarian Catholic politics and made themselves useful to industry. With tactical brilliance the politicians pursued their individual political ambitions, rather than a coherent modernization strategy, which, by 1969, had turned Bavaria into a prosperous Land, the center of Germany's new aerospace, defense, and energy industries, with a disproportionate share of its research institutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“Milosch has written a well-researched monograph that places a crucial period of recent history into its proper political and economic context. This work should be required reading for anyone interested in late twentieth-century German and European history.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  German Studies Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…provides a very helpful interpretation of the Christian Social Union’s role in general, and Franz Josef Strauß’s role in particular, in Bavaria’s political and economic modernization up to 1969…Underlying Milosch’s narrative account of Bavaria’s technical, scientific, and economic modernization…lay an important contribution to our theoretical understanding of the modernization process itself.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Central European History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tPreface\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: Bavaria, 1949\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBavaria and Germany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPostwar Climate of Opinion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCSU and CDU\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIndustrial Modernization in CSU-Dominated Bavaria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. Industrial Modernization Just Below the Horizon, 1949–1954\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tIn a Tight Corner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSealing the Deal with Industry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStrauß Pushes Forward\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTurning the Economic Ministry to Account\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSeeing Industry in Science\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBetween Interest-Group Politics and Industrial Modernization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. Inventing a Politics of Modernization, 1954–1957\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLiberalizing the CSU\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tChallenge: the Social Democrats Make Science and Technology a Political Issue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tResponse: Strauß Gains the Upper Hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConnecting Defense-Industrial Ideas and Interests\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTurning the Defense Ministry to Account\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTurning Point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. The Great Leap Forward, 1957–1962\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Window of Opportunity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBlack Politics and Red Oil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBig Science\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNATO Nuclear Strategy and Bavarian Interest Solidarity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStarfighter, Space Flight, and Military R \u0026amp; D\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStrauß’s Fall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. New Tactics in a Time of Transition, 1963–1969\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tChanging Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLiberalism and Interventionism in Bavaria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe National Scene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Western Alliance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe American Challenge and Airbus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBavaria and the Big World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion: Bavaria, 1969\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCircumstances and Their Masters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tResults\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA New CSU and a New Bavaria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042965389655,"sku":"9781845451233","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845451233.jpg?v=1750956431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernizing-bavaria-the-politics-of-franz-josef-strauss-and-the-csu-1949-1969-9781845451233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}