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Finance and Modernization centres on a set of historical
developments and problems typified by the long history of the
A-sterreichische Creditanstalt and its successor organizations, and
opens the way to compare and contrast experiences throughout
Central and Western Europe and also on other continents. The
structure of this volume reflects the changing role and nature of
banks as economies become industrialized and modernized. Although
banks adapt to the needs of an industrializing economy, at the same
time, industrialization influences the manner in which banking
systems grow and the structures which they adopt. Beginning with
studies of the Austrian banks, their development and their crises,
the volume then moves on to look at case studies of important
aspects of financial activity - German stock markets, railroad
investment, and information networks. This is followed by a section
on country studies of banking modernization in Sweden, the
Netherlands and Greece. Finally, the collection concludes with two
chapters, one on banking in China and the other on banking in
India, certainly both of intrinsic interest and of importance in an
era of globalization. Professor Teichova, one of the great scholars
in the field, concludes with reflections on the individual
contributions and the general problems addressed in this book.
Finance and Modernization centres on a set of historical
developments and problems typified by the long history of the
A-sterreichische Creditanstalt and its successor organizations, and
opens the way to compare and contrast experiences throughout
Central and Western Europe and also on other continents. The
structure of this volume reflects the changing role and nature of
banks as economies become industrialized and modernized. Although
banks adapt to the needs of an industrializing economy, at the same
time, industrialization influences the manner in which banking
systems grow and the structures which they adopt. Beginning with
studies of the Austrian banks, their development and their crises,
the volume then moves on to look at case studies of important
aspects of financial activity - German stock markets, railroad
investment, and information networks. This is followed by a section
on country studies of banking modernization in Sweden, the
Netherlands and Greece. Finally, the collection concludes with two
chapters, one on banking in China and the other on banking in
India, certainly both of intrinsic interest and of importance in an
era of globalization. Professor Teichova, one of the great scholars
in the field, concludes with reflections on the individual
contributions and the general problems addressed in this book.
The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II
would not have been possible without the modern organization of
division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on
human and organizational resources they could not always control by
hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution of the Jews was
based, to a large extent, on a web of inter-organizational
relations encompassing a broad variety of non-hierarchical
cooperation as well as rivalry and competition. Based on newly
accessible government and corporate archives, this volume combines
fresh evidence with an interpretation of the governance of
persecution, presented by prominent historians and social
scientists. Gerald D. Feldman was Professor of History and Director
of the Institute of European Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. His special fields of interest were
20th-century German history, and he had a special interest in
business history, most recently authoring a biography of Hugo
Stinnes, participating in the history of the Deutsche Bank, and
writing a history of the Allianz Insurance Company in the Nazi
period. Wolfgang Seibel is Professor of Political Science at the
University of Konstanz, Germany. Previous appointments include
guest professorships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna
(1992), and the University of California at Berkeley (1994). He was
also a temporary member of the School of Social Science (1989/90)
and of the School of Historical Studies (2003) of the Institute of
Advanced Study, Princeton. Currently (2004/2005) he is a fellow of
the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research is mainly devoted
to issues of politics, public bureaucracy and non-governmental
organizations.
The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II
would not have been possible without the modern organization of
division of labor. Moreover, the perpetrators were dependent on
human and organizational resources they could not always control by
hierarchy and coercion. Instead, the persecution of the Jews was
based, to a large extent, on a web of inter-organizational
relations encompassing a broad variety of non-hierarchical
cooperation as well as rivalry and competition. Based on newly
accessible government and corporate archives, this volume combines
fresh evidence with an interpretation of the governance of
persecution, presented by prominent historians and social
scientists. Gerald D. Feldman is Professor of History and Director
of the Institute of European Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. His special fields of interest are
20th-century German history, and he has a special interest in
business history, most recently authoring a biography of Hugo
Stinnes, participating in the history of the Deutsche Bank, and
writing a history of the Allianz Insurance Company in the Nazi
period. He has recently started work on a history of the Austrian
banks under National Socialism. Wolfgang Seibel is Professor of
Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Previous
appointments include guest professorships at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Vienna (1992), and the University of California at
Berkeley (1994). He was also a temporary member of the School of
Social Science (1989/90) and of the School of Historical Studies
(2003) of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Currently
(2004/2005) he is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
His research is mainly devoted to issues of politics, public
bureaucracy and non-governmental organizations.
This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel
industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and
acted in their relations with state and society during a period of
war, revolution, and economic crisis. Because this industry
occupied a central position in Germany during the inflation, the
author's investigation illuminates certain crucial aspects of the
Weimar Republic that have hitherto been relatively unexplored. The
author explains how heavy industry--and particularly the iron and
steel industry-successfully took advantage of shortages of raw
materials and of inflation to gain the upper hand over customers in
the manufacturing industries. He notes that it proved able to
resist government and consumer efforts to change and control
policies affecting heavy industry and, finally, to lead the
counterattack against labor's greatest gain in the Revolution of
1918, the eight-hour day. Although the importance of iron and steel
to the German economy declined in relation to that of more advanced
sectors of the economy, its highly concentrated character, able
leadership, and importance to the war and reconstruction efforts
gave it advantages in reconstituting its power within the business
community and the Weimar state. Originally published in 1977. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel
industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and
acted in their relations with state and society during a period of
war, revolution, and economic crisis. Because this industry
occupied a central position in Germany during the inflation, the
author's investigation illuminates certain crucial aspects of the
Weimar Republic that have hitherto been relatively unexplored. The
author explains how heavy industry--and particularly the iron and
steel industry-successfully took advantage of shortages of raw
materials and of inflation to gain the upper hand over customers in
the manufacturing industries. He notes that it proved able to
resist government and consumer efforts to change and control
policies affecting heavy industry and, finally, to lead the
counterattack against labor's greatest gain in the Revolution of
1918, the eight-hour day. Although the importance of iron and steel
to the German economy declined in relation to that of more advanced
sectors of the economy, its highly concentrated character, able
leadership, and importance to the war and reconstruction efforts
gave it advantages in reconstituting its power within the business
community and the Weimar state. Originally published in 1977. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der
Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde
Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw. Brandenburg-Preussens in Form von
wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen, Vortragen, Tagungen und
Veroeffentlichungen sowie durch Serviceleistungen. Dabei kooperiert
die Kommission auch mit anderen Institutionen und begleitet
wissenschaftliche und praktische Vorhaben von allgemeinem
oeffentlichen Interesse. In der Schriftenreihe werden die
Ergebnisse der einzelnen wissenschaftlichen Projekte der Kommission
veroeffentlicht.
Die "Historische Kommission zu Berlin" betreibt die Erforschung der
Landesgeschichte und der Historischen Landeskunde
Berlin-Brandenburgs bzw. Brandenburg-Preussens in Form von
wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen, Vortragen, Tagungen und
Veroeffentlichungen sowie durch Serviceleistungen. Dabei kooperiert
die Kommission auch mit anderen Institutionen und begleitet
wissenschaftliche und praktische Vorhaben von allgemeinem
oeffentlichen Interesse. In der Schriftenreihe werden die
Ergebnisse der einzelnen wissenschaftlichen Projekte der Kommission
veroeffentlicht.
Gerald Feldman's history of the internationally prominent insurance
corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or
previously unavailable archival sources, making this a more
accurate account of Allianz and the men who directed its business
than was ever before possible. Feldman takes the reader through
varied cases of collaboration and conflict with the Nazi regime
with fairness and a commitment to informed analysis, touching on
issues of damages in the Pogrom of 1938, insuring facilities used
in forced labor camps, and the problems of denazification and
restitution. The broader issues examined in this study--when
cooperation with Nazi policies was compulsory and when it was
complicit, the way in which profit, ideology, and opportunism
played a role in corporate decision making, and the question of how
Jewish insurance assets were expropriated--are particularly
relevant today given the ongoing international debate about
restitution for Holocaust survivors. This book joins a growing body
of scholarship based on open access to the records of German
corporations in the Nazi era. Gerald D. Feldman is Professor of
History at the University of California at Berkeley. His book, The
Great Disorder (Oxford, 1993) received the DAAD Book Prize of the
German Historical Association and the Book Prize for Central
European History from the American Historical Association. He was
an invited expert at the London Gold Conference in December 1997
and at the U.S. Conference on Holocaust Assets in Washington, D.C.
in December 1998 and served as an advisor to the Presidential
Commision on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis
of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the
armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919,
scrutinizing the motives, actions and constraints that informed
decision-making by the French, American and English politicians who
bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace
settlement. It also addresses German reactions to the draft treaty
and the final agreement, as well as Germany's role in the immediate
postwar period. The findings call attention to diverging peace aims
within the American and Allied camps and underscore the degree to
which the negotiators themselves considered the Versailles Treaty a
work in progress. A detailed examination of the proceedings from
the point of view of the main protagonists forms the core of the
investigation.
Gerald Feldman's history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources, making this a more accurate account of Allianz and the men who directed its business than was ever before possible. Feldman takes the reader through varied cases of collaboration and conflict with the Nazi regime with fairness and a commitment to informed analysis, touching on issues of damages in the Pogrom of 1938, insuring facilities used in forced labor camps, and the problems of denazification and restitution. The broader issues examined in this study--when cooperation with Nazi policies was compulsory and when it was complicit, the way in which profit, ideology, and opportunism played a role in corporate decision making, and the question of how Jewish insurance assets were expropriated--are particularly relevant today given the ongoing international debate about restitution for Holocaust survivors. This book joins a growing body of scholarship based on open access to the records of German corporations in the Nazi era. Gerald D. Feldman is Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. His book, The Great Disorder (Oxford, 1993) received the DAAD Book Prize of the German Historical Association and the Book Prize for Central European History from the American Historical Association. He was an invited expert at the London Gold Conference in December 1997 and at the U.S. Conference on Holocaust Assets in Washington, D.C. in December 1998 and served as an advisor to the Presidential Commision on Holocaust Assets in the United States.
This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, and scrutinizes the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the French, American, and English politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the peace settlement. It also addresses German reactions to the draft treaty and the final agreement. A detailed examination of the proceedings from the point of view of the main protagonists forms the core of the investigation.
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles,
please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
This book is the English translation of Gerald D. Feldman's
contributions to the multi-author, two-volume study
OEsterreichische Banken und Sparkassen im Nationalsozialismus und
in der Nachkeriegszeit, which was originally published in German by
C. H. Beck in 2006. Austrian Banks in the Period of National
Socialism focuses on the activities of two major financial
institutions, the Creditanstalt-Wiener Bankverein and the
Landerbank Wien. It details the ways the two banks served the Nazi
regime and how they used the opportunities presented by Nazi rule
to expand their business activities. Particular attention is given
to the role that the Creditanstalt and Landerbank played in the
'Aryanization' of Jewish-owned businesses. The book also examines
the two banks' relations with their industrial clients and
considers the question of whether bank officials had any knowledge
of their client firms' use of concentration camp prisoners and
other forced laborers during World War II.
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