A01=Bruce Kent
Author_Bruce Kent
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Product details
- ISBN 9780198202226
- Weight: 616g
- Dimensions: 137 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 1991
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first comprehensive account of the dispute over who should `pay' for the First World War - a dispute which poisoned international relations, destabilized the world's financial system, and encouraged the rise of the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s. Dr Kent's systematic analysis of the origins and persistence of the financial demands made upon Germany after the war sheds new light on the `beggar-thy-neighbour' tendencies of liberal democracies in times of financial crisis. He argues that the victors had no coherent policy of eliminating Germany as a commercial or strategic threat. The indemnity illusion was fostered by British, French, and American statesmen to conceal the financial implications of the war and to defuse radical agitation for heavy taxation.
