Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936

Cover-Page
Half-Title
Dedication
Title
Contents
List of Tables
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: A Republic without Authority?
2 1916/19: The Antinomies of Authority
	Introduction
	War authoritarianism and the erosion of authority
	Authority between reform and revolution
	Reasserting authority in the revolution
	Conclusion
3 Authority Revitalized: Weimar’s Foreign Policy
	Introduction
	From continental power to world pariah: The Versailles Treaty
	Restoring authority: Locarno and the Rhineland
	Revitalizing authority: Risk and geopolitics in Mitteleuropa 1930–1936
	Conclusion
4 The Authority of Money
	Introduction
	The early parameters of authority: Inflation
	The parameters of the social state: Stabilization, 1924–30
	Deflation and the destruction of Weimar’s social authority
	Conclusion
5 The Authority of Law: The Judiciary
	Introduction
	The judiciary: The caste of authority
	Bulwarks of the Nation. The judiciary in war and inflation, 1916–1924
	‘The alien body in the social people’s state’. The judiciary and the authority of the republic, 1924–29
	The republic as apocalypse: Crime and ‘shackled justice’
	‘Fair Justice – Authoritarian Justice – People’s Justice’
	Conclusion
6 The Quest for Cultural Authority
	Introduction
	Culture and the authority of the state
	Cultural authority through censorship
	Cultural authority and the pedagogy of enactment
	Conclusion
7 Renegade Authority: The Junker Landrat
	Introduction
	The Field Administration under the Republic
	The province
	Renegade authority: The ‘königliche Landrat’
	Conclusion
8 Authority Between Democracy and Dictatorship
	Introduction
	Discourses of authority
	Dictatorship within the bounds of the constitution
	Authoritarian democracy
	In search of a Führer
	Plebiscitary authority as generational revolt
	Conclusion
9 Authority Unbound 1933–36
	Introduction
	Conclusion
Notes
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
Selected Bibliography
	Archives
	Printed sources
	Secondary literature
Index
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