"Business in the Age of Extremes" Published in GHI Series

War, hyperinflation, and political violence stood alongside more mundane concerns such as querulous customers and troublesome suppliers on the list of challenges German and Austrian businesses faced during the first half of the twentieth century. How businesspeople and firms grappled with recurring political and economic upheavals from the outbreak of World War I to the collapse of the Third Reich is the focus of the newest title in the Publications of the German Historical Institute series, Business in the Age of Extremes: Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History edited by Hartmut Berghoff (GHI), Jürgen Kocka (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin/UCLA), and Dieter Ziegler (Ruhr University Bochum). In exploring the interplay of business and politics, the contributors to Business in the Age of Extremes pay tribute to the late Gerald D. Feldman (1937-2007), whose many publications include groundbreaking studies of labor, management, and the state in Germany during World War I and of the "Great Disorder" of hyperinflation in the early years of the Weimar Republic. Business in the Age of Extremes can be ordered from Cambridge University Press.