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The Interwar Failures, 1918–1939
2021Austin discusses the failures of the interwar period in Central Europe, looking at how authoritarianism replaced democracy in the region. The chapter begins with a discussion of the Versailles, St. Germain, and Trianon Treaties, which created new nation states out of old empires following the end of the First World War.
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Adventures in Journalism: 1918–1939
2016Kerby discusses the interwar years by investigating the work of famous author and journalist Sir Philip Gibbs. He reported on the Versailles peace treaty, the League of Nations, the impact of the war in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Hungary, the USA, civil war in Ireland, famine in Russia, the French occupation of the Ruhr, the rise of ...
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1995
Abstract The focus of this chapter is not on the short‐term fluctuations experienced by the German banks during the inter‐war period, but on the structural change that ultimately resulted in the formation of a national banking system. The banking system of the early twentieth century was not a rational construct, but had evolved over the
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Abstract The focus of this chapter is not on the short‐term fluctuations experienced by the German banks during the inter‐war period, but on the structural change that ultimately resulted in the formation of a national banking system. The banking system of the early twentieth century was not a rational construct, but had evolved over the
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The Interwar Republic, 1918–1939
2017With the restoration of the country’s independence at the end of 1918, the Polish Church was no longer subject to foreign jurisdictions. But, in the Polish Second Republic, secular intelligentsia and Church hierarchs and advocates viewed each other with distrust and the country’s bishops repeatedly expressed their concerns about secularism as well as ...
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Dictatorship and Democracy, 1918–1939
2012Both dictatorship and democracy were essentially new concepts of political rule in Germany after World War I. It was true that suffrage had been increasingly extended after the revolution of 1848–1849, and more citizens (male citizens, that is) were entitled to vote in Imperial Germany than, for instance, in Great Britain.
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2017
This chapter analyses and assesses the reforms of military education under Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and the Second Republic, illustrating the tangle of politics and professional issues which affected Spain’s military policy during this period.
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This chapter analyses and assesses the reforms of military education under Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and the Second Republic, illustrating the tangle of politics and professional issues which affected Spain’s military policy during this period.
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The physical sciences in Oxford, 1918-1939 and earlier
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 1994Abstract When the guns on the western front fell silent on 11 November 1918, Oxford science was almost derelict, and recovery was slow. A few new professors and lecturers were appointed, including many who had made notable wartime contributions in government laboratories.
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URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER, 1918–1939
The Historical Journal, 2012ABSTRACTLiverpool and Manchester have come to typify twentieth-century urban decay and their demise is strongly associated with the perceived decline of local government after 1918. By the 1930s, contemporaries had stereotyped northern cities as places of poverty and deprivation, in comparison to the prosperous south.
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Europas litteraturhistoria 1918-1939
Books Abroad, 1947Lawrence S. Thompson, Artur Lundkvist
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