Die aktuelle Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise erinnert in mancher Hinsicht an die Situation zu Beginn der 1930er-Jahre: Florian Pressler erläutert, wie überhitzte Märkte und riskante Finanzmanöver die weltweit als Katastrophe erlebte Grosse Depression auslösten und fragt nach Parallelen zur...

Providing a comprehensive yet compact survey of the growth of American economic influence in Europe since the 1880s, this book summarizes the discussion by business historians, sociologists, and political scientists and makes it accessible to all types of readers who are interested in political...

Today FDR's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to the economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural historian Schivelbusch investigates their shared elements...