Hitler's Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies

ISBN-13: 9780415373302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 382 str.

Stackelberg, Roderick

Opis

 Hitler’s Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German history. Roderick Stackelberg analyzes how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness.

This second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate recent historical research and engage with current debates in the field. It includes

• an expanded introduction focusing on the hazards of writing about Nazi Germany
• an extended analysis of fascism, totalitarianism, imperialism, and ideology
• a broadened contextualisation of antisemitism
• discussion of the Holocaust including the euthanasia program and the role of eugenics
• new chapters on Nazi social and economic policies and the structure of government as well as on the role of culture, the arts, education and religion
• additional maps, tables, and a chronology
• a fully updated bibliography.

Exploring the controversies surrounding Nazism and its afterlife in historiography and historical memory, Hitler’s Germany provides students with an interpretive framework for understanding this extraordinary episode in German and European history.

Spis treści

Preface to the Second Edition.  Chronology.  Introduction: the Problems of Writing About National Socialism  1. Fascism and the Conservative Tradition: Fascist Ideology, Constituency, and Conditions for its Growth  2. The Problem of German Unity: Absolutism and Particularism  3. The German Empire: the Containment of Democracy, Social Imperialism, and the Road to War  4. Germanic Ideology: Nationalism, Vulgarized Idealism, and Antisemitism  5. The First World War: The Crisis of Imperial Germany  6. The Weimar Republic and the Weakness of Liberal Democracy  7. The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: the Great Depression and the Rise of the Nazis  8. The Nazi Consolidation of Power, 1933–1934  9. Economy, Society, and the State in the Third Reich  10. Education, Culture, Religion, and Eugenics in the Third Reich  11. Persecution of the Jews, 1933–1939  12. The Origins of the Second World War  13. The Second World War: From European to Global War, 1939–1941  14. The Second World War: From Triumph to Defeat, 1942–1945  15. The Holocaust  16. Continuities and New Beginnings: the Aftermath of National Socialism and War  17. The Historians` Debate: the Place of Hitler`s Reich in German History and Memory.  Select Bibliography

O autorze

Roderick Stackelberg is Robert K. and Ann J. Powers Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Gonzaga University. His publications include The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany (2007) and with Sally A. Winkle, The Nazi Germany Sourcebook (2002).