- Paperback: 1030 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; New Ed edition (27 Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195101146
- ISBN-13: 978-0195101140
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 17.4 x 4.9 cm
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"Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the fate of democratic institutions in Weimar Germany and other countries operating in the twentieth-century context of war and economic catastrophe."--American Historical Review
"Mandatory reading for social scientists of all kinds, and not only monetarists and historians dealing with twentieth-century Germany."--Journal of Economic Literature
"Feldman's history of the German inflation is impressive both for the breadth of its vision and the texture of its detail....[The book] will become essential reading for anyone who truly wishes to understand what happened to Germany in the first third of the Twentieth century.--Journal of Military History
"Gerald D. Feldman's history of the great inflation in Germany adds up to one of the most comprehensive investigations of an advanced industrial society....With the realist novelist's eye for illustrative detail and consequential themes, Gerald Feldman has produced a sweeping history
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This comprehensive study of German inflation under the Weimar Republic has been recognized as the definitive work on the subject.
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The German inflation had its origins in the First World War, a war which profoundly altered the course of German history. Read the first page
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The German inflation had its origins in the First World War, a war which profoundly altered the course of German history. Read the first page
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A great book to lose yourself in
8 Oct 2000
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This is great, hard-core history.
While this book probably won't appeal to the average run-of-the-mill history buff, it will attract anyone who wants to lose himself in a vary narrow, hyper-specialized area of history.
In many ways the economic disaster of Germany between 1914-1924 reworked the foundation of modern finance. For the first time in western history a political system was literally straightjacketed into salvaging an impossible economic situation. This book goes into exhaustive detail contrasting the unenlightened economic policies of the Allies to the increasingly discouraged Germans who desperately wanted to bring order to their lives.
Feldman does a great job helping the reader tune into the magnitude of the hopelessness that the German people felt regarding the impossibility of satisfying unpayable reparations. This is a crisp retelling of a people who did not have, and indeed were prevented from having the economic infrastructure to participate in a functional modern economy.
By the time Feldman is done telling you the story of Germany's incomprehensible inflation, you'll feel an intimacy with this subject. This book is indispensable for understanding the origins of the seething anger, frustration and hostility that the Nazi's were able to so successfully tap into and manipulate.
Finally, I should note that this book is itself something of an ordeal to read; it took me well over two years to read this 4 pound monster. But I have to say I enjoyed every hour I spent with it...
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