The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9781474240956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str.

Ian Kershaw

Opis

The Nazi Dictatorship evaluates the complex historiography of the Third Reich, providing students with a detailed examination of the interpretational issues which characterize the study of this field.

Recenzje

Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich. International History Review

Spis treści

Preface to the Revelations Edition Abbreviations 1. Historians and the problem of explaining Nazism 2. The Essence of Nazism: form of fascism, brand of totalitarianism, or unique phenomenon? 3. Politics and economics in the Nazi State 4. Hitler: 'master of the Third Reich' or 'weak dictator' 5. Hitler and the Holocaust 6. Nazi foreign policy: Hitler's 'programme' or 'expansion without object'? 7. The Third Reich: 'social reaction' or 'social revolution'? 8. 'Resistance without the people'? 9. 'Normality' and genocide: the problem of 'historicization' 10. Shifting perspectives: historiographical trends in the aftermath of unification Suggestions for further reading Index

O autorze

Sir Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK. Among his other publications is the internationally acclaimed biography Hitler (2 vols, 1998 and 2000). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.