An edition of Contested city (1998)

Contested city

municipal politics and the rise of Nazism in Altona, 1917-1937

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July 15, 2024 | History
An edition of Contested city (1998)

Contested city

municipal politics and the rise of Nazism in Altona, 1917-1937

In the wake of the First World War, many Germans saw the future of their nation as contingent on a vision of municipal progress. In this well-researched study, Anthony McElligott uses local politics as an analytical tool to decipher the bigger picture of the fare of the Weimar Republic.

Focusing on the industrial city of Altona, McElligott locates his discussion of the contradictions of the Weimar "local state" along two axes - first, persistent financial, policy, and political conflict between the central and the local state and, second, the conflicts within the Weimar local state between the displaced and resentful middle classes and the newly enfranchised working class.

McElligott probes beneath the level of formal party conflicts to reconstruct the "politics of everyday life" at the street level. This study will be of wide interest to historians and political scientists.

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Language
English
Pages
334

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Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Map of Altona and North Germany
Introduction
"Rowdies" in Altona's Rathaus: politics and conflicts, 1917-1933
Clash of cultures: slum life and welfare, 1918-1932
"Save us from Altona!": the battle against incorporation, 1924-1927
Economic struggles: the local state and business interests, 1924-1932
Street politics in the crisis, 1930-1933
"Under the sign of the swastika!" The divided Volksgemeinschaft, 1933-1937
Conclusion: local state, central state, and contested state
Epilogue: Brauer's return.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-320) and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor
Series
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.943/515
Library of Congress
DD901.H28 M42 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 334 p. :
Number of pages
334

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL359692M
ISBN 10
0472109294
LCCN
98019712
OCLC/WorldCat
39169900
Library Thing
7659718
Goodreads
1804699

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1883368W

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