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James Retallack
£22.00
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Nazi Germany
Edited by Jane Caplan
344 pages
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5 maps
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216x138mm
978-0-19-927687-5
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Paperback
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24 April 2008
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- An up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the history of Nazi Germany
- Ten chapters, each written by an expert in the field, covering all the most important themes in the history of National Socialism
- Includes chapters on Nazi ideology; the Nazi seizure of power; the organization of the Nazi 'national community'; the relationship between Nazism and Germany's religious faiths; Nazi economics; foreign policy and the path to war; the intertwining of war and genocide; and Nazism in German post-war history and memory
The history of National Socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, and one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe alone. This volume presents an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the history of Nazi Germany, with ten chapters on the most important themes, each by an expert in
the field.
Following an introduction which sets out the challenges this period of history has posed to historians since 1945, contributors explain how Nazism emerged as ideology and political movement; how Hitler and his party took power and remade the German state; and how the Nazi 'national community' was organized around a radical and eventually lethal distinction between the 'included' and the 'excluded'. Further chapters discuss the complex relationship between Nazism and Germany's religious faiths; the perverse economic rationality of the regime; the path to war laid down by Hitler's foreign policy; and the intricate and intimate intertwining of war and genocide, with a final chapter on the aftermath of National Socialism in postwar German history and memory.
Readership: All students of Nazi Germany, the Second World War, or Germany in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Edited by Jane Caplan, Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford Contributors:
Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto
Jane Caplan, University of Oxford
Richard J. Evans, University of Cambridge
Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert G. Moeller, University of California, Irvine
Jeremy Noakes, University of Exeter
Richard Steigman-Gall, Kent State University
Jill Stephenson, University of Edinburgh
Adam Tooze, University of Cambridge
Nikolaus Wachsmann, University
of London
Gerhard L. Weinberg, University of North Carolina
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"Excellent...work of exceptional quality. It is difficult to think of a better guide to Nazi Germany (even in German). It should gain an immediate place at the top of all reading lists." - Joachim Whaley, Journal of European Studies "In a brief format it provides a broad, state-of-the-art picture of Nazi Germany. The editor and the authors deserve credit for this service to scholars and teachers of the field." - Moritz Follmer, English Historical Review. "Jane Caplan's book encompasses overviews on the most important topics on an up-to-date level by experts who have established reputations from major research publications on their area...in their effort to combine precise information with balanced
reflection of historical perspectives, most of those chapters achieve a remarkably high level of density while still being readable. This is no small achievement." - Magnus Brechtken, Times Higher Education Supplement "Caplan and her team of authors have succeeded in producing an extremely useful volume, which will definitely become standard reading for all university courses on National Socialism." - Patrick Bernhard, European History Quarterly.
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Jane Caplan: Introduction
1: Richard J. Evans: The Emergence of Nazi Ideology
2: Peter Fritzsche: The NSDAP, 1919-34: From Fringe Politics to the Seizure of Power
3: Jeremy Noakes: Hitler and the Nazi State: Leadership, Hierarchy, and Power
4: Jill Stephenson: Inclusion: Building the National Community in Propaganda and Practice
5: Nikolaus Wachsmann: The Policy of Exclusion: Repression in the Nazi State, 1933-9
6: Richard Steigmann-Gall: Religion and the Churches
7: Adam Tooze: The Economic History of the Nazi Regime
8: Gerhard L. Weinberg: Foreign Policy in Peace and War
9: Doris L. Bergen: Occupation, Imperialism and Genocide, 1939-45
10: Robert G. Moeller: The Third Reich in Postwar German Memory
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
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