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The great depression in Europe, 1929-1939 / Patricia Clavin.
Lippincott Library HC240 .C518 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clavin, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- Europe.
- Economic conditions.
- Depressions--1929--Europe.
- Depressions.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This is a comparative study of the origins, course and consequences of deepest economic crisis in modern European history. Written with the non-economist in mind, the book explores recent research into the causes of the depression, notably the gold standard "system" which helped to turn recession into profound depression and to transmit its effects around the world. The book gives equal weight to the political and historical context of economic policy-political attitudes and expectations, institutional opinions, strategic considerations, the "legacies and lessons"--to explain why European countries chose nationalist routes to recovery. International co-operation offered the best chance for recovery and the book also contains a lively account of why this failed and its consequences for international relations in the 1930s.
- Contents:
- 1 Frustrated Expectations, 1919-24 7
- The Visible Costs of the War 8
- The 'Invisible Price': The Financial Costs of the War 13
- Who Will Be the World's Banker? 18
- The Peace Settlements 20
- Reparations and War Debts 26
- Inflation and Hyperinflation 30
- The Dawes Plan, 1924 36
- 2 The Price of Stability, 1924-29 40
- The Ghost of Gold Standard Past 41
- The Gold Standard Reconstructed, 1920-28 46
- The Experience of Inflation and Deflation 58
- Shortcomings of the Gold Standard 'Order' 61
- 3 A European Revival? 1925-28 68
- The United States in Europe, 1925-28 69
- The Recovery in Industry 71
- Problems for Farmers 78
- Rising Protectionism 81
- The Role of Foreign Investment 84
- 4 Into the Whirlwind, 1927-31 88
- The 'Special Case' of Germany 89
- The Role of Reparations 93
- Europe and the Wall Street Crash 96
- Agriculture and the Crash 100
- The Policy Response: Fighting the 'Last War' 105
- 5 In the Depths of Depression, 1931-32 110
- Society in Depression: History's Playthings 112
- Germany and 'Hunger Chancellor' Bruning 117
- The Banking Crisis in the Heart of Europe 119
- The German Banking Crisis 124
- The Hoover Moratorium 127
- Consequences of the Banking Crisis 128
- The Emergence of the Sterling Bloc 130
- 'Fortresses' within Europe 136
- Policy Innovation 140
- Limits on Recovery 144
- 6 Internationalism versus Nationalism, 1931-34 147
- Conference Diplomacy 149
- The Lausanne Conference, 1932 150
- The Stresa Conference 152
- War Debts: The End? 154
- Roosevelt Floats the Dollar 157
- The World Economic Conference Convenes, June-July 1933 159
- 7 Nationalist Roads to Recovery, 1933-39 167
- The Context for Recovery 168
- The National Socialist Recovery 171
- Eastern Europe and Scandinavia 179
- Italy 183
- The End of the Gold Bloc: Recovery in Belgium and France 186
- The International Dimension, 1936-39 193
- British Recovery and the Anglo-American Tariff Agreement 194
- Conclusion: Two Postwar Eras in Comparison: The Lessons of History Applied? 198
- A New Internationalism 200
- Domestic Sources of Recovery 206
- A New Regionalism 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312237340
- 0312237359
- OCLC:
- 43903564
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