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Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
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English
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2001
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For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. In his original and authoritative study, Bernd Widdig investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic. He argues that inflation, with its dynamics of massification, devaluation, and the rapid circulation of money, is an integral part of modern culture and intensifies and condenses the experience of modernity in a traumatic way.
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Widdig Bernd :
Bernd Widdig is Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of the MIT-Germany Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Männerbünde und Massen: Zur Krise männlicher Identität in der Literatur der Moderne(1992).
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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List of Tables
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Acknowledgments
XV - Introduction
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1. Money Matters: Culture and Inflation
1 - Part I: History and Experience
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2. Flirting with Disaster: The German Inflation, 1914–1923
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3. Daily Explosions: Canetti's Inflation
53 - Part II: Money
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4. Under the Sign of Zero: Money and Inflation
79 - Part III: Figures
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5. Uncanny Encounters: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
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6. Visions of Work: Hugo Stinnes and His Doubles
134 - Part IV: Accounts
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7. Cultural Capital in Decline: Inflation and the Distress of Intellectuals
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8. Witches Dancing: Gender and Inflation
196 - Part V: Epilogue
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9. Aftershocks: Inflation, National Socialism, and Beyond
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
March 21, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780520924703
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
293
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29 b/w photographs, 7 tables
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eBook ISBN:
9780520924703
Keywords for this book
hyperinflation; interwar germany; weimar republic; economic inflation; economic history; first world war; 20th century german history; political history; modernity; rise of the nazi party; german reich; german empire; rapid circulation of money; economic anxieties; economics; germany; politics; interdisciplinary; social issues; war to end all wars; nazis; money; cultural impact; popular culture; german republic; constitutional assembly; german peoples state; devaluation; cultural issues
