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This book analyses the history of economic crises from the angle of
international politics and its transformation throughout the 20th
century. While political and economic debates in the wake of the
present financial crisis are revolving around the question of how
to create effective forms of global governance, historians have
discovered a long tradition of international economic regulation
that can be traced back to the late 19th century. In the global
economy, sovereign defaults, banking crises and currency crashes
have been recurrent phenomena. At the same time, alongside the
growing globalization of commodity and capital markets,
nation-states have introduced new forms of regulation both on the
national and international level. The experience of economic crises
has been an important driver behind numerous initiatives to foster
global politics. The purpose of the book is to reconnect economic
history with the perspectives of political economy and the history
of international relations. It forms a dialogue between the
disciplines that have been increasingly separated throughout the
past decades. With first-rate economic historians and political
economists writing for a wider audience, it simultaneously makes
public debates and methods of recent cutting-edge research in
economic history within a wider academic community. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the European Review of
History.
This book analyses the history of economic crises from the angle of
international politics and its transformation throughout the 20th
century. While political and economic debates in the wake of the
present financial crisis are revolving around the question of how
to create effective forms of global governance, historians have
discovered a long tradition of international economic regulation
that can be traced back to the late 19th century. In the global
economy, sovereign defaults, banking crises and currency crashes
have been recurrent phenomena. At the same time, alongside the
growing globalization of commodity and capital markets,
nation-states have introduced new forms of regulation both on the
national and international level. The experience of economic crises
has been an important driver behind numerous initiatives to foster
global politics. The purpose of the book is to reconnect economic
history with the perspectives of political economy and the history
of international relations. It forms a dialogue between the
disciplines that have been increasingly separated throughout the
past decades. With first-rate economic historians and political
economists writing for a wider audience, it simultaneously makes
public debates and methods of recent cutting-edge research in
economic history within a wider academic community. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the European Review of
History.
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between
1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively
international debate that is showing signs of further
intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of
World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about
continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from
Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes:
the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German
history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in
a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military
violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world
wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international
system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives
presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument
and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this
field of research.
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between
1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively
international debate that is showing signs of further
intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of
World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about
continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from
Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes:
the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German
history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in
a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military
violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world
wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international
system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives
presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument
and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this
field of research.
In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a
present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic
globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration
reached a level that equaled, and in some respects surpassed, that
of the present day. This book describes the interpenetration of the
German economy with an emerging global economy before the First
World War, while also demonstrating the huge challenge posed by
globalization to the society and politics of the German Empire. The
stakes for both the winners and losers of the intensifying world
market played a major role in dividing German society into camps
with conflicting socio-economic priorities. As foreign trade policy
moved into the center stage of political debates, the German
government found it increasingly difficult to pursue a successful
policy that avoided harming German exports and consumer interests
while also seeking to placate a growing protectionist movement.
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