Routes into abyss : coping with the crises in the 1930s / edited by Helmut Konrad and Wolfgang Maderthaner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Konrad, Helmut, 1948-

Maderthaner, Wolfgang.

Series:

International studies in social history ; v. 21.

International studies in social history ; volume 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1933-1945.

World politics.

Depressions--1929.

Depressions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison across time to give insight into the contemporary global recession. Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain with their antidemocratic, authoritarian or fascistic answers to the economic crisis are compared not only to an opposite European perspective - the Swedish example - but also to other global perspectives and their political consequences in Japan, China, India, Turkey, Brazil and the United States. The book offers no recipe for economic, social or polit

Contents:

Introduction / Helmut Konrad and Wolfgang Maderthaner

Crisis and workers' movements / Ferdinand Lacina

The significance of February, 1934 in Austria in both national and international context / Helmut Konrad

Avalanches of spring : the Great War, modernism, and the rise of Austro-fascism / Roger Griffin

Der italienische Faschismus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Reaktion und Moderne / Karin Priester

Hitler's dictatorship : his role as "leader" in the Nazi regime / Hans Mommsen

The Second Spanish Republic : the challenges facing a democracy in troubled times / Vicent San Rozalén

The crisis in the 19301/2s and the rise to power of the Swedish social democrats / Bengt Schüllerqvist

The United States in the Great Depression : was the fascist door open? / Nelson Lichtenstein

Turkey in the first world crisis : from authoritarianism to totalitarianism / Erik-Jan Zürcher

Brazil in the 1930s : state building, nationalism and working-class agency / Alexandre Fortes and Paulo Fontes

Labour, organisation and gender : the jute industry in India in the 1930s / Samita Sen

Japan's way out of the crisis of the 1930s as a strategy for overcoming modernity / Hiroko Mizuno

Reappraising the Nanjing decade (1927-1937): modernizing China during the world economic crisis / Zhu, Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-217) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857457851

0857457853

OCLC:

858763317