Routes Into the Abyss: Coping with Crises in the 1930s

Routes Into the Abyss: Coping with Crises in the 1930s
ISBN-10
0857457853
ISBN-13
9780857457851
Category
History
Pages
230
Language
English
Published
2013-06-30
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Helmut Konrad, Wolfgang Maderthaner

Description

Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison across time to give insight into the contemporary global recession. Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain with their antidemocratic, authoritarian or fascistic answers to the economic crisis are compared not only to an opposite European perspective – the Swedish example – but also to other global perspectives and their political consequences in Japan, China, India, Turkey, Brazil and the United States. The book offers no recipe for economic, social or political action in today's recession, but it shows a wide range of reactions in the past, some of which led to catastrophe.

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