The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic

The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and teachers to make sense of the contradictions and complexities of Germany's experiments with democracy and modern society in this period. The contributions emphasize the historical openness of Germany's first republic, which was more than just the coming of the Third Reich. The thirty-three chapters, all written by leading experts, contain information and interpretation based on cutting-edge scholarship, and together provides an unsurpassed panorama of the Weimar Republic.

Nadine Rossol, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Essex,Benjamin Ziemann, Professor of Modern German History, University of Sheffield

Nadine Rossol is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Essex. She is currently Deputy Dean of Partnerships, and has held fellowships at the University of Limerick and the Free University Berlin.

Benjamin Ziemann is Professor of Modern Germany History at the University of Sheffield. He has held fellowships and visiting professorships at the University of Oslo, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of York, and the University of Tübingen.

1. Introduction, Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann
Part I: Key Events and Political Developments
2. The German Revolution of 1918/19, Christopher Dillon
3. The Period of Inflation, 1919-1923, Martin H. Geyer
4. Coalition-Building and Political Fragmentation, 1924-1930, Matthew Stibbe
5. From Democracy to Dictatorship: The Fall of Weimar and the Nazi Rise to Power, 1930-33, Larry Eugene Jones
Part II: Polity, Politics, and Policies
6. The Weimar Constitution, Peter C. Caldwell
7. Nationalism and Nationhood, Erin Hochman
8. Elections, Election Campaigns, and Democracy, Thomas Mergel
9. Federalism, Regionalism, and the Construction of Spaces, Siegfried Weichlein
10. The Reichswehr and Armament Policies, Benjamin Ziemann
11. Foreign Policy: The Dilemmas of a Revisionist State, Jonathan Wright
12. Republican Groups, Ideas, and Identities, Nadine Rossol
13. Social Policy in the Weimar Republic, Karl-Christian Führer
Part III: Parties and their Constituencies
14. Liberalism, Philipp Müller
15. Social Democrats and Communists in Weimar Germany: A Divided Working-Class Movement, Joachim C. Häberlen
16. The Centre Party, Conservatives, and the Radical Right, Shelley Baranowski
17. National Socialism, Daniel Siemens
18. Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic, Susanne Wein and Martin Ulmer
Part IV: Economy and Society
19. The Overstretched Economy: Industry and Financial Services, Jan-Otmar Hesse and Christian Marx
20. The Middle Classes, Moritz Föllmer
21. The Industrial Working Class, Pamela Swett
22. Agriculture and Rural Society, Benjamin Ziemann
23. Weimar Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Reproduction, Ute Planert
24. Transnational Visions of Modernity: America and the Soviet Union, Mary Nolan
25. German Jews in the Weimar Republic, Sharon Gillerman
26. Youth and Youth Movements: Relations, Challenges, Developments, Barbara Stambolis
Part V: Culture
27. Mass Culture, Jochen Hung
28. German Literature 1918-1933, Helmuth Kiesel
29. Architecture, Town Planning and Large-Scale Housing Estates: Challenges, Visions, and Proposed Solutions, Beate Störtkuhl
30. Religious Cultures and Confessional Politics, Todd Weir and Udi Greenberg
31. The Humanities and Social Sciences, Lutz Raphael
32. Visual Weimar: The Iconography of Social and Political Identities, Kerry Wallach
33. The Presence of the First World War in Weimar Culture, Claudia Siebrecht
Index