Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional 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. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading loyalty to the values of liberalism and nationalism. This enabled him in time both to adjust to defeat and revolution and to recognize in the Republic the only basis on which Germans could unite, and in European cooperation the only way to avoid a new war. His attempt to build a stable Germany as an equal power in a stable Europe throws an important light on German history in a critical time. Hitler was the beneficiary of his failure but, so long as he was alive, Stresemann offered Germans a clear alternative to the Nazis. Jonathan Wright's fascinating new study is the first modern biography of Stresemann to appear in English or German.
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"Jonathan Wright ... has performed the valuable service of adding an authoritive keystone to the arch of German political life between 1918 and 1933. The book is clearly written and well organized.... it is highly recommended to fill out the education of German specialists on the Germany of the 1920s."--History
"lucidly and crisply written... indispensable for understanding interwar diplomacy"--The Atlantic Monthly
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Jonathan Wright is a Tutorial Fellow and Lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Stresemann opened an autobiographical sketch, which he wrote shortly before becoming chancellor in August 1923, by using Wordsworth's words as an introduction to his early life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peaceful revision, great coalition, frontier revision, cabinet minutes, ethnographic frontiers, first party conference, liberal unity, reparations settlement, territorial revision, military evacuation, security pact, early evacuation, arbitration treaties, remaining zones, bourgeois parties, peace resolution, coalition parties, private diplomacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Liberals, Deutsche Stimmen, United States, Bethmann Hollweg, Kabinette Stresemann, National Liberal Party, Gustav Stresemann, High Command, Social Democrats, Crown Prince, Upper Silesia, League of Nations, Kabinette Marx, Central Association, Kabinette Luther, Association of Saxon Industrialists, Hansa Association, Weimar Republic, Mein Vater, Berliner Tageblatt, East Prussia, New York, Prussian Landtag, Ambassador of Peace, Oxford University Press New!
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Stresemann opened an autobiographical sketch, which he wrote shortly before becoming chancellor in August 1923, by using Wordsworth's words as an introduction to his early life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
peaceful revision, great coalition, frontier revision, cabinet minutes, ethnographic frontiers, first party conference, liberal unity, reparations settlement, territorial revision, military evacuation, security pact, early evacuation, arbitration treaties, remaining zones, bourgeois parties, peace resolution, coalition parties, private diplomacy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Liberals, Deutsche Stimmen, United States, Bethmann Hollweg, Kabinette Stresemann, National Liberal Party, Gustav Stresemann, High Command, Social Democrats, Crown Prince, Upper Silesia, League of Nations, Kabinette Marx, Central Association, Kabinette Luther, Association of Saxon Industrialists, Hansa Association, Weimar Republic, Mein Vater, Berliner Tageblatt, East Prussia, New York, Prussian Landtag, Ambassador of Peace, Oxford University Press New!
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- From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology by Max Weber on page 1, and Back Matter
- Untitled Book on Europe by Timothy Garton Ash in Front Matter
- Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933 (Jewish Society and Culture) by Peter G. J. Pulzer on page 52
- The Anschluss Question in the Weimar Era: A Study of Nationalism in Germany and Austria, 1918-1932 by Professor Stanley Suval on page 362
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