| List of Illustrations | |
| List of Maps | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Glossary | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 'The Child is a father of the Man': 1878-1901 | p. 8 |
| 'A hunger for power': Business and Politics, 1901-1914 | p. 25 |
| The Organization of Manufacturing Industry | p. 30 |
| National Liberal Politics | p. 41 |
| 'For the greater, freer Germany of the future': War, 1914-1918 | p. 66 |
| War Aims | p. 68 |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | p. 76 |
| Constitutional Reform | p. 82 |
| The Crisis of July 1917 | p. 87 |
| For Victory and Reform | p. 96 |
| Defeat and Rejection | p. 105 |
| 'We are and remain independent towards the Right and the Left': Accommodation and Opposition, October 1918-June 1920 | p. 111 |
| Lessons of Defeat: October 1918 | p. 111 |
| The Shock of Revolution | p. 115 |
| A United Liberal Party? | p. 117 |
| Opposition | p. 126 |
| Finding the Middle Ground | p. 128 |
| Anti-Semitism | p. 136 |
| Independence towards the Left | p. 138 |
| Independence towards the Right | p. 141 |
| Preparing for Government | p. 144 |
| Foreign Policy | p. 145 |
| The Kapp Putsch | p. 149 |
| The Elections of June 1920 | p. 158 |
| 'The Latchkey to Power': Building a Coalition of the Centre, June 1920-December 1922 | p. 162 |
| Stresemann's Political Strategy | p. 163 |
| Minority Government | p. 167 |
| A Stresemann Government? | p. 177 |
| 'Objective Opposition' | p. 181 |
| The Assassination of Walther Rathenau | p. 191 |
| Towards the Great Coalition | p. 195 |
| The Making of a Republican Statesman | p. 199 |
| 'All but political suicide': Ruhr Occupation and Chancellor, 1923 | p. 202 |
| The Ruhr Occupied | p. 202 |
| Reich Chancellor | p. 212 |
| The Stresemann Cabinets | p. 213 |
| The Coalition | p. 217 |
| The Abandonment of Passive Resistance | p. 217 |
| On the Brink of Civil War | p. 220 |
| A Second Chance | p. 223 |
| Poincare Victorious | p. 226 |
| The Return of the Crown Prince | p. 231 |
| Dancing on a Volcano | p. 233 |
| Intervention in Saxony: The End of the Great Coalition | p. 238 |
| 'I will not give in': Reichswehr Intrigue and Hitler Putsch | p. 244 |
| An Independent Rhineland? | p. 251 |
| 'In the open battlefield': The Defeat of the Government | p. 253 |
| 'A gleam of light on the otherwise dark horizon': The Dawes Plan and the Road to Locarno, 1924-1925 | p. 260 |
| Appointment as Foreign Minister | p. 260 |
| Stresemann versus Adenauer | p. 262 |
| Revision of the Treaty of Versailles | p. 267 |
| The Dawes Plan | p. 270 |
| The Elections of May 1924 | p. 273 |
| 'I hated all night' | p. 279 |
| The Flight for the Dawes Plan | p. 283 |
| The London Conference, July-August 1924 | p. 286 |
| The Drama of Ratification | p. 290 |
| Disillusionment with Politics? | p. 292 |
| Membership of the League of Nations? | p. 294 |
| Bringing the DNVP into Government | p. 296 |
| The Proposal for a Security Pact | p. 301 |
| The Election of Hindenburg as Reich President | p. 307 |
| The Security Pact and the Soviet Union | p. 310 |
| Revision of the Polish Frontier | p. 313 |
| Conflict over the Security Pact | p. 314 |
| Towards Locarno | p. 320 |
| Soviet Threat of Embarrassment | p. 322 |
| Stresemann's Goals before Locarno | p. 324 |
| Locarno and the League, 1925-1926 | p. 330 |
| The Locarno Conference | p. 331 |
| 'These donkeys': The DNVP Returns to Opposition | p. 339 |
| The Second Luther Cabinet | p. 348 |
| Deadlock Over Entry to the League | p. 351 |
| The Treaty of Berlin | p. 354 |
| Peaceful Revision | p. 359 |
| Coalition Politics | p. 365 |
| A Time for Optimism | p. 368 |
| Entry into the League and Thoiry | p. 373 |
| 'A crisis of the parliamentary system' | p. 383 |
| Stresemann and Secret Rearmament | p. 385 |
| 'Responsible realpolitik' | p. 387 |
| Peaceful Revision in the Balance, 1927-1928 | p. 389 |
| Coalition with the DNVP | p. 393 |
| The Priority of Peace | p. 396 |
| The Consequences for Peaceful Revision | p. 400 |
| The Politics of Foreign Policy | p. 401 |
| The Receding Prospect of Frontier Revision | p. 408 |
| Evacuation of the Rhineland and Revision of the Dawes Plan | p. 412 |
| The Kellogg-Briand Pact | p. 415 |
| The Formation of the Great Coalition | p. 418 |
| 'The tyranny of the Reichstag party' | p. 424 |
| Foreign Minister of the Great Coalition | p. 428 |
| 1929: Stresemann or Hugenberg? | p. 443 |
| The Committee of Experts | p. 443 |
| The DVP and the Great Coalition | p. 445 |
| The Political System in Crisis: Reflections and Plans | p. 454 |
| The Young Plan | p. 461 |
| Protection of Minorities and Frontier Revision | p. 465 |
| A Franco-German Alliance? | p. 474 |
| The Hague Conference | p. 479 |
| Towards European Union? | p. 483 |
| Preparing for Hugenberg and Hitler | p. 486 |
| Conclusion | p. 492 |
| Maps | p. 526 |
| Bibliography | p. 529 |
| Index | p. 553 |
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