This study of the 1923 Ruhr crisis makes plain the devastating human and political cost of France's abortive attempt to extract reparations from Germany by force. Economic ruin combined with moral and political crisis left the Weimar Republic hopelessly compromised. This is one of the great untold t
Britain and the Ruhr Crisis
✍ Scribed by Elspeth Y. O’Riordan (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Series
- Studies in Military and Strategic History
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-12
The Bonar Law Cabinet and the Origins of the Ruhr Crisis....Pages 13-36
Benevolent Neutrality, January–April 1923....Pages 37-65
Tentative Intervention, April–July 1923....Pages 67-80
British Policy in Confusion, August–September 1923....Pages 81-100
Britain and the German Collapse, September–December 1923....Pages 101-124
Establishing the Committees of Experts, September–December 1923....Pages 125-143
Resolution, January–August 1924....Pages 145-172
Conclusion....Pages 173-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-237
✦ Subjects
European History; History of Britain and Ireland; Modern History; History of Military
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