In this volume Europe's leading modern historians offer new insights into two totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century that have profoundly affected world history-Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Until now historians have paid more attention to the similarities between these two regimes than to their differences. Stalinism and Nazism explores the difficult relationship between the history and memory of the traumas inflicted by Nazi and Soviet occupation in several Eastern European countries in the twentieth century. The first part of the volume explores the origins, nature,...
In this volume Europe's leading modern historians offer new insights into two totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century that have profoundly affec...
Critically analyzes and revitalizes agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution.
Today, most historians, philosophers, political theorists, and scholars of rural America take a dim view of the agrarian ideal that farmers and farming occupy a special moral and political status in society. Agrarian rhetoric is generally seen as special pleading on the part of farmers seeking protection from labor reform and environmental regulation while continuing to receive direct payments and subsidies from the public till.
Agrarianism should not be viewed as a set of immutable claims...
Critically analyzes and revitalizes agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution.
Today, most historians, philosophers, political theoris...
Globally, no single issue resonates today as much as torture or allegations thereof. Under the current rubric of the war on terror, the governments of the United States and other democratic nations that have long decried human rights abuses have sought to alter the tone, tenor, and definition of the term. From where does the basis for this new paradigm derive? How might it affect a nation's moral and official authority in the eyes of its citizenry and the world? When, if ever, can torture be an accepted practice? What are the psychological and physical aftereffects of such physical and...
Globally, no single issue resonates today as much as torture or allegations thereof. Under the current rubric of the war on terror, the governments...
