TY - BOOK AU - Lieberman,Ben TI - From Recovery to Catastrophe: Municipal Stabilization and Political Crisis T2 - Monographs in German History SN - 9781789205886 AV - JS5431 .L53 1998 U1 - 338.943/009042 23 PY - 1998///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Municipal finance KW - Germany KW - Municipal government KW - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Tables --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; Introduction: Recovering Weimar Recovery --; Chapter 1: Stabilization and State Expansion: Comprehensive City Planning --; Chapter 2: State Expansion and Democratization --; Chapter 3: Municipal Finance and Destabilization --; Chapter 4: Cities and Distributional Conflict --; Chapter 5: Cities and the Weimar Productivity Debate --; Chapter 6: Defining the Civic Public --; Chapter 7: State and Society: The Contradictions of Recovery --; Conclusion: From Recovery to Destabilization --; Sources and Select Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Historians of the stabilization phase of Weimar Germany tend to identify German recovery after the First World War with the struggle to revise reparations and control hyperinflation. Focusing primarily on economic aspects is not sufficient, however, the author argues; the financial burden of recovery was only one of several major causes of reaction against the republic. Drawing on material from major German cities, he is able to trace the emergence of strong local activism and of comprehensive and functional policies of recovery on the municipal level which enjoyed broad political backing. Ironically, these same programs that created consensus also contained the potential for destabilization: they unleashed intense debate over the needs of the consumersand the purpose and extent of public spending, and with that of government intervention more generally, which accelerated the fragmentation of bourgeois politics, leading to the final destruction of the Weimar Republic UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789205886?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789205886 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789205886/original ER -