The Most Valuable Asset Of The Reich 1 1920 1932

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469620206

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1932, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In the first detailed history of this important organization, Alfred Mierzejewski presents a sophisticated analysis of the Reichsbahn's operations, finances, and political and social roles. In addition, he uses the story of the Reichsbahn to gain new perspectives on modern German economic and political history. Mierzejewski describes and analyzes the beginnings of the national railway in Germany and the problems that it faced. He examines the Reichsbahn's noncapitalistic, "commonweal" approach to economic management and shows how the railway was used to hold Germany together, especially in the face of Bavarian particularism. Mierzejewski's account also provides unparalleled insight into Germany's reparations policies, demonstrating that Germany was fully capable of paying the Dawes annuities and that the government's claims that reparations paid by the Reichsbahn hurt both the railway and Germany were groundless. A second volume will cover the period from 1933 to 1945.

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : 0807824968

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The most valuable asset of the Reich. 1. 1920 - 1932 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: A History of the German National Railway Volume 1, 1920-1932

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028566417

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1920-1932 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0807825743

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1933-1945 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany. In this, the second volume of his comprehensive history of the Rei

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Railroads and state
ISBN : UOM:39015048528536

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The Most Valuable Asset of the Reich: 1920-1932 by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

Author : Jan Musekamp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253068941

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Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands by Jan Musekamp Pdf

Tracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism. Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control in nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad (Ostbahn) between the 1830s and 1930s. The line was initially planned as a major internal modernizing project to connect Prussia's capital of Berlin to East Prussia's provincial capital of Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad). Soon, the Ostbahn connected to the growing Imperial Russian railroad network, thus becoming a backbone of European East–West transportation in trade, tourism, technological exchange, and migration. The First World War temporarily disrupted and reconfigured existing networks, adapting them to new political regimes and borders. However, World War II and its aftermath altered mobility patterns more permanently, dividing not only the Ostbahn tracks but the whole continent for decades to come. From border towns and major cities to unique structures, such as stations or bridges, this volume analyzes the obvious and not-so-obvious nodes of the Central and Eastern European rail network—and the spaces in between.

Author : Mary Kathryn Barbier
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461750840

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D-Day Deception by Mary Kathryn Barbier Pdf

Before landing in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allies executed an elaborate deception plan designed to prevent the Germans from concentrating forces in Normandy. The lesser-known first part, Fortitude North, suggested a threat to Norway. The more famous Fortitude South indicated that the invasion would occur at the Pas de Calais rather than Normandy, largely by creating a fictitious army group under Gen. George S. Patton. While historians have generally praised Operation Fortitude, Barbier takes a more nuanced view, arguing that the deception, while implemented well, affected the invasion's outcome only minimally. A much-needed reassessment of the deception operation that preceded the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II Involves double agents, fake equipment, phantom units, and famous commanders

Author : Thomas Zeller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452269

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Driving Germany by Thomas Zeller Pdf

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Hitler's autobahn was more than just the pet project of an infrastructure-friendly dictator. It was supposed to revolutionize the transportation sector in Germany, connect the metropoles with the countryside, and encourage motorization. The propaganda machinery of the Third Reich turned the autobahn into a hyped-up icon of the dictatorship. One of the claims was that the roads would reconcile nature and technology. Rather than destroying the environment, they would embellish the landscape. Many historians have taken this claim at face value and concluded that the Nazi regime harbored an inbred love of nature. In this book, the author argues that such conclusions are misleading. Based on rich archival research, the book provides the first scholarly account of the landscape of the autobahn.

Author : Theo Balderston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521777607

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Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic by Theo Balderston Pdf

This book offers a succinct overview of the turbulent economic history of the Weimar Republic.

Author : Felix Jeschke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789207774

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Iron Landscapes by Felix Jeschke Pdf

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities balanced these two imperatives, bringing the cultural history of infrastructure into dialogue with the spatial history of Central Europe.

Author : Craig Dworkin
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781953035646

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Helicography by Craig Dworkin Pdf

Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson's iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies. Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting and literal enthusiasm, Helicography pursues the implications of such transformations all the way to the limits of logic. If other spirals, from the natural to the man-made, were expanded or condensed to the size of Spiral Jetty, what are the consequences of their physical metamorphoses? What other equivalences follow in turn, and where do their surprising historical, cultural, and mechanical connections lead? This book considers a number of forms in order to find out: the fluid vortices of whirlpools, hurricanes, and galaxies; the delicate shells of snails and the threatening pose of rattlesnakes; prehistoric ferns and the turns of the inner ear; the monstrous jaws of ancient sharks; a baroque finial scroll on a bass viol; a 19th-century watch spring; phonograph discs and spooled film; the largest open-pit mine on the planet. The result is a narrative laboratory for the "science of imaginary solutions" proposed by Alfred Jarry (whose King Ubu also plays a central role in the story told here), a work of fictocriticism blurring form and content, and the story of a single instant in time lost in the deserts of the intermountain west. Craig Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs - Reading the Illegible (Northwestern University Press), No Medium (MIT Press), Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham University Press), and Radium of the Word: a Poetics of Materiality (Chicago University Press) - as well as a half-dozen edited collections and a dozen books of experimental writing, including, most recently, The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions). He teaches literary history and theory at the University of Utah.

Author : Richard Vahrenkamp
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business logistics
ISBN : 9783844101188

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The Logistic Revolution by Richard Vahrenkamp Pdf

In The Logistic Revolution, Richard Vahrenkamp discusses the political and economic factors which have led to the rise of logistics in Europe in the context of the mass consumption society. Not only does he show the ascent of truck transport in the 1920s to satisfy consumer needs and the importance of the European motorway infrastructure for the development of modern logistics, he also sheds light on the dimension that freight transport has acquired in Europe and on the organizations that have been created in Europe to enable and facilitate cross border goods transports. Other than in the US, the national transport markets in Europe were initially uncoordinated. It was only in the process of European unification that transport markets for truck freight and associated logistics systems became Europe wide. This change was accompanied by the struggle between rail and truck.

Author : Anthony Heywood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317143321

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Engineer of Revolutionary Russia by Anthony Heywood Pdf

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life and career, it also explores the relationship between science, technology and transport that developed in late tsarist and early Soviet Russia. Lomonosov's importance extends well beyond his scientific and engineering achievements thanks to the rich variety and public prominence of his professional and political activities. His generation - Lenin's generation - was inevitably at the forefront of Russian life from the 1910s to the 1930s, and Lomonosov took his place there as one of the country's best known and ultimately notorious engineers. As well as an innovative engineer who campaigned to enhance the role of science, he played a major role in shaping and administering the Russian railways, and undertook several diplomatic and scientific missions to the West during the early years of the Revolution. Falling from political favour during an assignment in Germany (1923-1927), he achieved notoriety in Russia as a 'non-returner' by apparently declining to return home. Thereby escaping probable arrest and execution, he began a new life abroad (1927-1952) which included a research post at the California Institute of Technology in 1929-1930, collaborative projects with the famous physicist P.L. Kapitsa in Cambridge, a long-time association with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, and work for the British War Office during the Second World War. From Marxist revolutionary to American academic, this study reveals Lomonosov's extraordinary life. Drawing on a wide variety of official Russian sources, as well as Lomonosov's own diaries and memoirs, a vivid portrait of his life is presented, offering a better understanding of how science, technology and politics interacted in early-twentieth-century Russia.

Author : Martin Lodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313013836

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On Different Tracks by Martin Lodge Pdf

The governments of several countries are in the process of reforming their regulatory regimes for the railways, and there is much debate about the appropriate regulation of transport in general and railways in particular—especially in light of environmental concerns about traffic congestion and air pollution and economic concerns about the financing of infrastructure and services. This volume investigates how Britain and Germany regulated their railways at three different points in time over the past century: after the First World War, after the Second World War, and in the 1990s. Its central focus is the design of regulatory regimes and the impact of institutional factors on the selection of design ideas and on processes of isomorphism. By placing a comparative analysis of regulatory design in a historical context and an institutional framework, the author contributes to the current debate on the emergence of the regulatory state in the late 20th century.

Author : Johannes Bähr
Publisher : Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783641311667

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Carl Friedrich von Siemens 1872–1941 by Johannes Bähr Pdf

Entrepreneur in an Age of Upheaval Carl Friedrich von Siemens was one of the significant business figures in an era filled with crises and turmoil. He became “Head of the House of Siemens” after World War I and managed the company throughout the German Great Inflation and the Great Depression, as well as during the Third Reich and into the early years of World War II. This biography provides the first comprehensive portrait of the personality and diverse accomplishments of a man who reorganized the Siemens companies, headed the Reichsbahn national railroad for ten years, and served politically as a delegate from a democracy-supporting party. The study shows how he increasingly turned away from party politics, and how his position evolved yet again during the Third Reich, from compliance with the regime to a growing personal alienation.