Conan Fischer

A Vision of Europe

Franco-German Relations During the Great Depression, 1929-1932

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Produktbeschreibung

Investigates and re-evaluates Franco-German relations during the inter-war Great Depression, providing a fresh understanding of Franco-German conflict and cooperation during the past century and in the process demonstrating that present-day European integration, based around the Paris-Berlin axis, has far deeper roots than previously imagined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780199676293
• ISBN-10: 0199676291
• Artikelnr.: 47869084

Autorenporträt

Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Conan Fischer is an Honorary Professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. He graduated in European Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1972 and received his DPhil from the University of Sussex in 1980 with a thesis on the social history of the Nazi storm troopers. He worked from 1976 at the University of Aston in Birmingham, from 1979 at Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, and from 1989 at the University of Strathclyde before moving to St Andrews in 2010. His earlier research and publications concentrated on Nazism and Communism in inter-war Germany, before turning to the history of inter-war Europe and in particular Franco-German relations.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword and Acknowledgements
* 1: Tentative Beginnings: France, Germany, and Intimations of
Rapprochement
* 2: From Thoiry to the Young Plan: Cautious Progress and the Death of
Stresemann
* 3: Germany, France, and the Briand Plan
* 4: From Paris to Berlin: Official Visits and the Origins of the
Franco-German Commission
* 5: Berlin and the Creation of the Franco-German Commission
* 6: Breakdown: the Stresemann Memoirs Scandal and Wounds that failed
to Heal
* Conclusion