Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Follmer, Moritz

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Weimar and Nazi Germany, capitalism was hotly contested, discreetly practiced, and politically regulated. This volume shows how it adapted to fit a nation undergoing drastic changes following World War I. Through wide-ranging cultural histories, a transatlantic cast of historians probes the ways contemporaries debated, concealed, promoted, and racialized capitalism. They show how bankers and industrialists, storeowners and commercial designers, intellectuals and politicians reshaped a controversial economic order at a time of fundamental uncertainty and drastic rupture. The book thus sheds fresh light on the strategies used by Hitler and his followers to gain and maintain widespread support. The authors conclude that National Socialism succeeded in mobilizing capitalism's energies while at the same time claiming to have overcome a system they identified with pernicious Jewish influences. In so doing, the volume also speaks to the broader issue of how capitalism can adapt to new times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108983631
• Artikelnr.: 66183637

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Historicizing capitalism in Germany, 1918-1945 Moritz Föllmer
and Pamela E. Swett; Part I. Debating capitalism: 1. Capitalism and agency
in interwar Germany Moritz Föllmer; 2. Aporias of 'political capitalism'
between World War One and the Depression Martin H. Geyer; 3. Searching for
order: German jurists debate economic power, 1919-1949 Kim Christian
Priemel; Part II. Concealing capitalism: 4. Capitalism, wealth, and the
question of (in)visibility: The Thyssen family and its investments Simone
Derix; 5. Semantics of success: The cases of Friedrich Flick and Henry J.
Kaiser Tim Schanetzky; 6. Hamburg coffee importers: From guild to class,
1900s-1960s Dorothee Wierling; Part III. Promoting capitalism: 7. Between
criticism and innovation: Beer and public relations in the Weimar Republic
Sina Fabian; 8. Managing consumer capitalism: Artists, engineers, and
psychologists as new marketing experts in interwar Germany Jan Logemann; 9.
A society safe for capitalism: Violent crowds, tumult laws, and the costs
of doing business in Germany, 1918-1945 Molly Loberg; Part IV. Racializing
capitalism: 10. Völkisch banking? Capitalism and Stuttgart's savings banks,
1933-1945 Pamela E. Swett; 11. Völkisch capitalism: Himmler's bankers and
the continuity of capitalist thinking and practice in Germany Alexa
Stiller.