THE DOWNFALL OF MONEY: GERMANY’S HYPERINFLATION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS
Book ID/图书代码： 00200013B62200
English Summary/英文概要： Many theorists believed a hundred years ago, just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century, that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never before seen condition of beneficial human interdependence that would lead to universal growth and prosperity. And yet the early years of the Weimar Republic in Germany witnessed the most complete and terrifying unravelling of a major country’s financial system to have occurred in modern times.
The story of the Weimar Republic’s financial crisis has a clear resonance in the second decade of the twenty-first century, when the world is anxious once more about what money is, what it means and how we can judge if its value is true. The Downfall of Money will tell anew the dramatic story of the hyperinflation that saw the once-solid German mark, worth 4.2 to the dollar in 1914, trading at over four trillion by the autumn of 1923. It is a trajectory of events uncomfortably relevant for today’s uncertain world.
The Downfall of Money will reveal the real causes of the crisis, what this collapse meant to ordinary people, and also trace its connection to Germany’s subsequent catastrophic political history. By drawing on a wide range of sources and making sense for the general reader of the vast amount of specialist research that has become available in recent decades, it will provide a timely, fresh and surprising look at this chilling period in history.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 许多理论家认为一百年前,就像我们的二十一世纪初期,世界经济已经达到了一个完美的状态,一个前所未有的有益人类相互依存条件的状态,经济普遍增长和繁荣。 然而,早在德国的魏玛共和国时期就目睹了最彻底的和可怕的一个国家的主要金融系统的解体。
魏玛共和国的金融危机故事对21世纪的第二个十年有着强大的反响,当世界再一次焦虑货币是什么,它意味着什么以及我们如何判断它的价值是正确的。《货币的垮台》将再次讲述曾经强有力的德国政府戏剧性的恶性通货膨胀的故事,1914年价值4.2美元的东西,在1923年秋天交易超过四万亿。这是有关今天的不确定的世界的一个令人不安的轨迹。
《货币的垮台》将揭示了危机的真正原因,这种崩溃对普通人意味着什么,并跟踪其对德国的后续灾难性的政治历史的影响。借鉴广泛的来源，为一般读者提供有意义的庞大的专业研究,这在最近几十年里已成为可能,它将提供一个及时、新鲜和令人惊讶的途径来洞察令人心寒的历史时期。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：In narrative power and persuasion, he has paralleled in Dresden what Antony Beevor achieved in Stalingrad Independent on Sunday [on Dresden] [The Berlin Wall tells] a story of great drama and human interest ... Hundreds tried to escape over, through, or under the wall, and Taylor tells the story of their ingenious efforts and occasional heart-stopping successes with great verve The Times [The Berlin Wall] combines serious historical research with an assured, gripping narrative ... Taylor’s extraordinary narrative skill - with the pacing of a thriller and the immediacy of reportage - is at its best Irish Times Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today Newsweek Taylor’s book is popular history at its best, essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Nazis and wants to know what happened next Richard Evans, New Statesman [on Exorcising Hitler]
About the Author/作者介绍： Frederick Taylor was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School, and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford, and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries and is the author of the acclaimed Dresden, The Berlin Wall and Exorcising Hitler. He lives in Cornwall.
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