Economic Interest, Militarism, and Foreign Policy; Essays on German History
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 209, [1] pages. Footnotes. Editor's Notes. The essays and Index. Includes: Introduction by Gordon Craig and Acknowledgments. Contains the initials MH in ink at top corner of fep. MH are the initials of noted author and scholar Max Holland. Ground Zero Books, Ltd acquired this item directly from Dr. Holland. Eckart Kehr (21 June 1902 in Brandenburg, Germany – 29 May 1933 in Washington, DC) was a German historian who was one of the first historians to emphasize the importance of social structure and economic interests in influencing political decisions. His most important work is his 1930 doctoral thesis (published 1931) Schlachtflottenbau und Parteipolitik 1894-1901 ("Battle Fleet Construction and Party Politics in Germany, 1894-1901: A Cross-Section of the Political, Social and Ideological Preconditions of German Imperialism"), which describes the domestic economic sources of Germany's naval policy during the years 1894 to 1901, reversing the cherished doctrine of the primacy of foreign policy in the life of the German state. The monograph gained slow acceptance, and his arrogant tone and historical mistakes held it back for decades, until West German historian Hans-Ulrich Wehler et al. revived it to create the Bielefeld School of social history in the 1960s-1970s. It is now considered a classic in the history of the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He died in 1933 of a heart attack after he had published 16 more essays. Gordon Alexander Craig (November 13, 1913 – October 30, 2005) was a Scottish-American liberal historian of German history and of diplomatic history. Craig was born in Glasgow. In 1925 he emigrated with his family to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and then to Jersey City, New Jersey. Initially interested in studying the law, he switched to history after hearing the historian Walter "Buzzer" Hall lecture at Princeton University. In 1935, Craig visited and lived for several months in Germany, to research a thesis he was writing on the downfall of the Weimar Republic. This trip marked the beginning of lifelong interest with all things German. Craig did not enjoy the atmosphere of Nazi Germany, and throughout his life, he sought to find the answer to the question of how a people who, in his opinion, had made a disproportionately large contribution to Western civilization, allowed themselves to become entangled in what Craig saw as the corrupting embrace of Nazism. The essays in this important work address: German Naval Policy, Anglophobia, Weltpolitik, Class Struggle, Armament Policy, Imperial Germany, Tripitz, German Kreigsmarine, German Navy, Propaganda, Royal Prussian Reserve Officer, Social System, Puttkamer, Reichswehr, Prussian Bureaucracy, Rechtsstaat, Dictatorship, and Historiography. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Naval Policy, Anglophobia, Class Struggle, Armament Policy, Imperial Germany, Tripitz, Kreigsmarine, German Navy, Propaganda, Royal Prussian Reserve Officer, Social System, Puttkamer, Reichswehr, Prussian Bureaucracy, Rechtsstaat, Dictatorship, Hist
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