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Tables of Contents for Gustav Stresemann
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xiii
List of Maps
xiv
List of Abbreviations
xv
Glossary
xvi
Introduction
1
7
`The Child is father of the Man': 1878--1901
8
17
`A hunger for power': Business and Politics, 1901--1914
25
41
The Organization of Manufacturing Industry
30
11
National Liberal Politics
41
25
`For the greater, freer Germany of the future': War, 1914--1918
66
45
War Aims
68
8
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
76
6
Constitutional Reform
82
5
The Crisis of July 1917
87
9
For Victory and Reform
96
9
Defeat and Rejection
105
6
`We are and remain independent towards the Right and the Left': Accommodation and Opposition, October 1918--June 1920
111
51
Lessons of Defeat: October 1918
111
4
The Shock of Revolution
115
2
A United Liberal Party?
117
9
Opposition
126
2
Finding the Middle Ground
128
8
Anti-Semitism
136
2
Independence towards the Left
138
3
Independence towards the Right
141
3
Preparing for Government
144
1
Foreign Policy
145
4
The Kapp Putsch
149
9
The Elections of June 1920
158
4
`The Latchkey to Power': Building a Coalition of the Centre, June 1920--December 1922
162
40
Stresemann's Political Strategy
163
4
Minority Government
167
10
A Stresemann Government?
177
4
`Objective Opposition'
181
10
The Assassination of Walther Rathenau
191
4
Towards the Great Coalition
195
4
The Making of a Republican Statesman
199
3
`All but political suicide': Ruhr Occupation and Chancellor, 1923
202
58
The Ruhr Occupied
202
10
Reich Chancellor
212
1
The Stresemann Cabinets
213
4
The Coalition
217
1
The Abandonment of Passive Resistance
217
3
On the Brink of Civil War
220
3
A Second Chance
223
3
Poincare Victorious
226
5
The Return of the Crown Prince
231
2
Dancing on a Volcano
233
5
Intervention in Saxony: The End of the Great Coalition
238
6
`I will not give in': Reichswehr Intrigue and Hitler Putsch
244
7
An Independent Rhineland?
251
2
`In the open battlefield': The Defeat of the Government
253
7
`A gleam of light on the otherwise dark horizon': The Dawes Plan and the Road to Locarno, 1924--1925
260
70
Appointment as Foreign Minister
260
2
Stresemann versus Adenauer
262
5
Revision of the Treaty of Versailles
267
3
The Dawes Plan
270
3
The Elections of May 1924
273
6
`I hated all night'
279
4
The Fight for the Dawes Plan
283
3
The London Conference, July-August 1924
286
4
The Drama of Ratification
290
2
Disillusionment with Politics?
292
2
Membership of the League of Nations?
294
2
Bringing the DNVP into Government
296
5
The Proposal for a Security Pact
301
6
The Election of Hindenburg as Reich President
307
3
The Security Pact and the Soviet Union
310
3
Revision of the Polish Frontier
313
1
Conflict over the Security Pact
314
6
Towards Locarno
320
2
Soviet Threat of Embarrassment
322
2
Stresemann's Goals before Locarno
324
6
Locarno and the League, 1925--1926
330
59
The Locarno Conference
331
8
`These donkeys': The DNVP Returns to Opposition
339
9
The Second Luther Cabinet
348
3
Deadlock Over Entry to the League
351
3
The Treaty of Berlin
354
5
Peaceful Revision
359
6
Coalition Politics
365
3
A Time for Optimism
368
5
Entry into the League and Thoiry
373
10
`A crisis of the parliamentary system'
383
2
Stresemann and Secret Rearmament
385
2
`Responsible realpolitik'
387
2
Peaceful Revision in the Balance, 1927--1928
389
54
Coalition with the DNVP
393
3
The Priority of Peace
396
4
The Consequences for Peaceful Revision
400
1
The Politics of Foreign Policy
401
7
The Receding Prospect of Frontier Revision
408
4
Evacuation of the Rhineland and Revision of the Dawes Plan
412
3
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
415
3
The Formation of the Great Coalition
418
6
`The tyranny of the Reichstag party'
424
4
Foreign Minister of the Great Coalition
428
15
1929: Stresemann or Hugenberg?
443
49
The Committee of Experts
443
2
The DVP and the Great Coalition
445
9
The Political System in Crisis: Reflections and Plans
454
7
The Young Plan
461
4
Protection of Minorities and Frontier Revision
465
9
A Franco-German Alliance?
474
5
The Hague Conference
479
4
Towards European Union?
483
3
Preparing for Hugenberg and Hitler
486
6
Conclusion
492
34
Maps
526
3
Bibliography
529
24
Index
553