| Summary: | The Weimar Republic (1918-33) was a pivotal period of German and European history and a laboratory of modernity. This comprehensive reference book presents the key findings of recent research on Weimar Germany concisely. Weimar is often presented as a warning from history, and as such invoked time and time again when challenges of democratic governance are debated. But the chapters of the Handbook demonstrate that Weimar's history is more than just the lead-up to the Third Reich or a crisis-ridden democracy: It was a period of bold experimentation in politics, society, and culture. Written by an international team of leading experts, the Handbook's thirty-three chapters provide cutting-edge synthesis of all key topics in the history of Germany's first democracy, covering social, political, economic, and cultural history with a focus on the historical openness of the period
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