ISBN:
9781443882231
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (302 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Wildt, Michael National Economies : Volks-Wirtschaft, Racism and Economy in Europe between the Wars (1918-1939/45)
DDC:
305.89240090449999
Keywords:
Europe--Race relations--Economic aspects
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Antisemitism History 20th century
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Racism History 20th century
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Electronic books
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Europe Race relations
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Economic aspects
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Europa
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Volkswirtschaft
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Rassismus
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Nationalismus
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Geschichte 1918-1945
Abstract:
This is a book about economics and racism: During World War I, the liberal global economic system, based on principles of free trade and most-favored nation treatment and negotiated in gold parities, collapsed for good. The disintegration and collapse of commerce eventually led to racist cleansing, expulsion and mass murder. Against this background, this book offers new perspectives on the racist fault-lines that appeared and deepened in European economies after the end of what was regarded as the Great War.At what point did people start to ostracize their neighbors economically because they thought they were of a different ethnic group? Who decided who was to be excluded? Where did the fault-lines open? Where did the boundaries lie? How were they defined - by law, or by common practice? How much extra time and money were people prepared to spend in order to do ostracize their neighbors? And what did that mean for the economy - and society - as such?
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Jew as "Homo Economicus -- The Usurious Jew -- Locating Jews in Capitalism -- Economy as Fate -- Anti-Semitism in German and Austrian Economy -- Barmat, Sklarek, Rotter, or:The Fabrication of the "Jewish Economic Scandal" in 1920's Berlin -- The Decline and Destruction of Jewish Entrepreneurship in Breslau and Silesia, 1925-1943 -- The Structure of the Ha'avara (Transfer) Agreement -- Nazi Economic Policy, Middle-Class Protection, and the Liquidation of Jewish Businesses 1933-1939 -- Pragmatic Racism and the Streamlining of the Nazi Economy -- Ethnic Fault Lines in Europe -- The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth -- Is the Armenian a Jew? -- Racist Parameters in the French Economy 1919-1939/44 -- The Impact of Land Reforms on the Consistution of "National Economies" in East Central Europe during the Interwar Period -- European Economy and German Diaspora -- Economic Nationalism in Romania and its Impact on National Identities 1918-1944 -- Ethnic-German Cooperatives in Eastern Europe between the World Wars -- Austria's Minority in South Tyrol and the Foreign Loan of 1930 -- 'Czechization' versus 'Germanization' -- Contributors -- Bibliography
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