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Article: Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 2004
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Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic, by Theo Balderston. New Studies in Economic and Social History. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 123 pp. $35.00 US (cloth), $12.99 US (paper).
The history of the first German Republic (1918-1930/33) is one of the best-kept secrets of Anglo-American historical scholarship. While innumerable historians have directed their attention to the Wilhelmine Empire, Hitler's Germany, and post-World War Two divided Germany, the Weimar Republic has largely been neglected. The only two available English textbooks on the subject are translations of older but nevertheless classic German accounts (by Eberhard Kolb and ...