1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler - Tobias Straumann

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Résumé :
In 1931,Tobias Straumann reveals the story of the fatal crisis, demonstrating how a debt trap contributed to the rapid financial and political collapse of a European country, and to the rise of the Nazi Party.

Biographie:
Tobias Straumann is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Zurich. He is a member of the European Historical Economics Society and the academic council of the European Association for Banking and Financial History. Straumann has widely published in the area of twentieth-century European financial and monetary history, and is the author of Fixed Ideas of Money: Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in Twentieth-Century Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and co-author of The Value of Risk: Swiss Re and the History of Reinsurance (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Sommaire:
Preface; Introduction; Confidence; 1 Laughing at the Raven; 2 A Triumph of Diplomacy; 3 'Strong Cards to Play'; Indecision; 4 Hitler's Victory; 5 To the Brink and Back; 6 'The First Real Chancellor Since Bismarck'; Despair; 7 Squaring the Circle; 8 Help from Washington; 9 Endgame; 10 The Rise of Hitler; Epilogue; Sources; References; Notes; Index