The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class - Couverture souple

Taylor, Frederick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408840189 ISBN 13 : 9781408840184

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Many theorists believed a hundred years ago, just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century, that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never before seen condition of beneficial human interdependence that would lead to universal growth and prosperity. And yet the early years of the Weimar Republic in Germany witnessed the most complete and terrifying unravelling of a major country's financial system to have occurred in modern times.

The story of the Weimar Republic's financial crisis has a clear resonance in the second decade of the twenty-first century, when the world is anxious once more about what money is, what it means and how we can judge if its value is true. The Downfall of Money will tell anew the dramatic story of the hyperinflation that saw the once-solid German mark, worth 4.2 to the dollar in 1914, trading at over four trillion by the autumn of 1923. It is a trajectory of events uncomfortably relevant for today's uncertain world.

The Downfall of Money will reveal the real causes of the crisis, what this collapse meant to ordinary people, and also trace its connection to Germany's subsequent catastrophic political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources and making sense for the general reader of the vast amount of specialist research that has become available in recent decades, it will provide a timely, fresh and surprising look at this chilling period in history.

Revue de presse :

In narrative power and persuasion, he has paralleled in Dresden what Antony Beevor achieved in Stalingrad (Independent on Sunday [on Dresden])

[The Berlin Wall tells] a story of great drama and human interest ... Hundreds tried to escape over, through, or under the wall, and Taylor tells the story of their ingenious efforts and occasional heart-stopping successes with great verve (The Times)

[The Berlin Wall] combines serious historical research with an assured, gripping narrative ... Taylor's extraordinary narrative skill - with the pacing of a thriller and the immediacy of reportage - is at its best (Irish Times)

Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today (Newsweek)

Taylor's book is popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Nazis and wants to know what happened next --(Richard Evans, New Statesman [on Exorcising Hitler])

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1408840189
• ISBN 13: 9781408840184
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432