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The Weimar Republic - Paperback
$35.06
by Detlev J. K. Peukert (Author)
The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity is a historical study by Detlev J. K. Peukert (1950–1990), the German historian who directed the Institute for Research on National Socialism in Hamburg and was known for his work on everyday life under the Nazi regime. The book was first published in German in 1987 and appeared in English translation by Richard Deveson in 1992. It forms part of Peukert’s broader effort to understand the social and cultural pressures of modern industrial society.
The work interprets the Weimar years not as a unique German aberration but as the most acute form of the crisis of classical modernity that also affected other industrial societies. Peukert examines the accelerated processes of industrialization, urbanization, rationalization, and demographic change that had begun under the Empire and became unmanageable after defeat, hyperinflation, and the Great Depression. He treats the welfare state, generational conflict, the “new woman,” mass culture, and the fragmentation of political milieux, arguing that the Republic’s collapse resulted from the simultaneous impact of structural modernization and successive economic shocks rather than from an inevitable path to National Socialism.
Sovereign Archive Publishing is proud to offer this influential reinterpretation of interwar Germany. The Weimar Republic remains essential reading for those studying the Weimar period, the crisis of modernity, and the social origins of the national socialism rise.
Number of Pages: 360
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 1993