Weimar: Beyond Gloom and Glitter
June 27, 2013
Our view of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933) has been conditioned by its successor, the Third Reich. Weimar calls to mind images of decadence, the acidic cabarets of Berlin and the discordant songs of Weil and Brecht, not to mention the brutal visions of post-war degeneration and gluttony painted by George Grosz and Otto Dix. This …
The Cost of Marriage
June 18, 2013
How much money do you need to get married these days? According to The Guardian (7/8/2010) the wedding day alone is said to cost the average British couple £21,000 (up from £12,000 in 2003) and tales circulate of newlyweds hawking their wedding presents on ebay in order to recoup marital expenses. And that is without …
US Foreign Policy in the American Century and After
June 14, 2013
Two key arguments have dominated the historiography of international relations since 1945 – the last half of the “American century.” The first of these stresses that US foreign policy since that date has been guided mainly by economic interests, while the second supposes that the end of the Cold War and the emergence of the …
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