Table of Contents:
  • Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; 1. 'The Child is father of the Man': 1878-1901; 2. 'A hunger for power': Business and Politics, 1901-1914; 3. 'For the greater, freer Germany of the future': War, 1914-1918; 4. 'We are and remain independent towards the Right and the Left': Accommodation and Opposition, October 1918-June 1920; 5. 'The Latchkey to Power': Building a Coalition of the Centre, June 1920-December 1922; 6. 'All but political suicide': Ruhr Occupation and Chancellor, 1923.
  • 7. 'A gleam of light on the otherwise dark horizon': The Dawes Plan and the Road to Locarno, 1924-19258. Locarno and the League, 1925-1926; 9. Peaceful Revision in the Balance, 1927-1928; 10. 1929: Stresemann or Hugenberg?; 11. Conclusion; Maps; Bibliography; Index.