The Weimar Century (eBook)

German Émigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War

Udi Greenberg (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5239-0 (ISBN)

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Udi Greenberg is assistant professor of history at Dartmouth College.

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How ideas, individuals, and political traditions from Weimar Germany molded the global postwar orderThe Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post-World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Blending intellectual, political, and international histories, Udi Greenberg shows that the foundations of Germany's reconstruction lay in the country's first democratic experiment, the Weimar Republic (1918-33). He traces the paths of five crucial German emigres who participated in Weimar's intense political debates, spent the Nazi era in the United States, and then rebuilt Europe after a devastating war. Examining the unexpected stories of these diverse individuals-Protestant political thinker Carl J. Friedrich, Socialist theorist Ernst Fraenkel, Catholic publicist Waldemar Gurian, liberal lawyer Karl Loewenstein, and international relations theorist Hans Morgenthau-Greenberg uncovers the intellectual and political forces that forged Germany's democracy after dictatorship, war, and occupation.In restructuring German thought and politics, these emigres also shaped the currents of the early Cold War. Having borne witness to Weimar's political clashes and violent upheavals, they called on democratic regimes to permanently mobilize their citizens and resources in global struggle against their Communist enemies. In the process, they gained entry to the highest levels of American power, serving as top-level advisors to American occupation authorities in Germany and Korea, consultants for the State Department in Latin America, and leaders in universities and philanthropic foundations across Europe and the United States. Their ideas became integral to American global hegemony.From interwar Germany to the dawn of the American century, The Weimar Century sheds light on the crucial ideas, individuals, and politics that made the trans-Atlantic postwar order.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.1.2015
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: activism • Adolf Hitler • Allied-occupied Germany • American Thinker • Anti-Communism • Anti-Imperialism • authoritarianism • Axis powers • bolsheviks • Calvinists • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Carl J. Friedrich • Carl Schmitt • Catholicism • Catholics • Central Europe • Cold War • communism • Communist Party of Germany • communist state • Criticism of democracy • Dartmouth College • Democracy • democratic revolution • Democratization • Denazification • Dictatorship • Economic Inequality • Election • Ernst Fraenkel • Extremism • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • German • German Calvinism • German liberalism • German liberals • German Life • German migrs • German Protestants • Germans • german universities • Germany • Government • Hans J. Morgenthau • Hans Morgenthau • Harvard University • Harvard University Press • hegemony • Henry Kissinger • Herbert Marcuse • hostility • Ideology • imperialism • Institution • Intellectual • International Law • International Relations • Karl Loewenstein • Konrad Adenauer • Latin America • League of Nations • Lecture • left-wing students • Legislation • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Marshall Plan • Marxism • middle class • militant democracy • Morgenthau • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • Oxford University Press • parliamentary system • Personalism • philanthropy • Policy • Political left • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political Theorists • Politician • Politics • politics of the united states • postwar reconstruction • Princeton University Press • Protestantism • Racism • racist dictatorship • Realism • Rechtsstaat • reconstruction • Reconstruction of Germany • Representative Democracy • rhetoric • right-wing politics • Rockefeller Foundation • Rule of Law • Secularization • Separation of Powers • Social Democracy • Social Democratic Party • Socialism • socialists • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • States of Germany • student activists • Subversion • Superiority (short story) • Theoretician (Marxism) • Totalitarianism • Trade Union • United States • United States Department of State • Vietnam War • Waldemar Gurian • war effort • Weimar Constitution • Weimar Republic • welfare • West Germany • Westphalian Sovereignty • World War • World War I • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5239-0 / 1400852390
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5239-0 / 9781400852390