The Unmasterable Past
The Unmasterable Past

Author: Charles S. Maier

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780674040441

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Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.

A Concise History of Nazi Germany
A Concise History of Nazi Germany

Author: Joseph W. Bendersky

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1538140845

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This balanced history offers a concise, readable introduction to Nazi Germany. Combining compelling narrative storytelling with analysis, Joseph W. Bendersky offers an authoritative survey of the major political, economic, and social factors that powered the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Now in its fifth edition, the book incorporates significant research of recent years, analysis of the politics of memory, postwar German controversies about World War II and the Nazi era, and more on non-Jewish victims. Delving into the complexity of social life within the Nazi state, it also reemphasizes the crucial role played by racial ideology in determining the policies and practices of the Third Reich. Bendersky paints a fascinating picture of how average citizens negotiated their way through both the threatening power behind certain Nazi policies and the strong enticements to acquiesce or collaborate. His classic treatment provides an invaluable overview of a subject that retains its historical significance and contemporary importance.

The Business of Genocide
The Business of Genocide

Author: Michael Thad Allen

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780807856154

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Examines the Business Administration Main Office of the SS, which built up the slave-labor system in Nazi concentration camps.

Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class
Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class

Author: Timothy W. Mason

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-03-09

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521437875

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This collection of essays, four of which are published in English for the first time, represents the life's work of the historian Tim Mason, one of the most original and perceptive scholars of National Socialism, who pioneered its social and labour history. His provocative articles and essays, written between 1964 and 1990, exhibit a combination of empirical rigour and theoretical astuteness which made them landmarks in the definition and elaboration of major debates in the historiography of National Socialism. These ten essays collect together Mason's most significant writings, including discussions of the domestic origins of the Second World War, the role of Hitler, and the character of working-class resistance, as well as his pathbreaking study of women under National Socialism, and examples of comparative work on fascism and Nazism. A complete bibliography of his publications is also appended.

Histories of the Holocaust
Histories of the Holocaust

Author: Dan Stone

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-06-17

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0199566798

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A comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes and debates in Holocaust historiography over the last two decades.

Fifty Years of Bangladesh
Fifty Years of Bangladesh

Author: Rounaq Jahan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1000998649

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Fifty Years of Bangladesh portrays the multi-faceted dimensions of Bangladesh’s development journey, its economic and social transformation and political and cultural contestations. The book presents new empirical data supplemented with critical analysis of processes, actors and actions that have been the drivers of Bangladesh’s transformation and offers new ways of understanding Bangladesh. Organized in six sections, the book provides a multi-disciplinary, holistic and interrelated narrative of the Bangladesh story covering its economic and social transformation, the political history and changing cultural landscapes. It presents new empirical data and proposes new theoretical and analytical frameworks to explain the country’s complex and paradoxical developments. Capturing the vast landscape of changes that have taken place in different sectors of Bangladesh during the last fifty years, the contributors analyse the variety of Bangladesh’s experiences, its achievements as well as the shortfalls and mistakes. They propose new models and perspectives to ground Bangladesh’s developments, identify persistent and emerging challenges and suggest ways forward. A valuable addition to scholarship on Bangladesh, this book can be used as a reference in universities, research institutions and international development agencies interested in Development Studies, South Asian Studies and studies of the Global South.

Legality and Legitimacy
Legality and Legitimacy

Author: Carl Schmitt

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2004-02-26

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780822331742

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DIVFirst English-language translation of one of Schmitt’s major works, providing a missing link in the oeuvre of this influential and controversial political theorist./div

The Making of the Holocaust
The Making of the Holocaust

Author: André Mineau

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 900449491X

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What made the Holocaust possible? What does it mean from a moral viewpoint? These two questions constitute the main focus of this book. Through concepts borrowed mostly from systems theory, an attempt is made at establishing a theoretical framework for a broad understanding of the genesis of the Holocaust. More specifically, the relationships between ideology, political power, and genocide are discussed, and the following topics are covered: (1) the constitution and the historical evolution of the ideology of the Holocaust, through the genesis of anti-Semitism, the impact of the modern paradigms, and the apparent peculiarities of Nazism; (2) the emergence of powerful means of action designed for implementing the ideology, in the context of totalitarianism; (3) control and freedom as the basic parameters in a decision-making process that went along with a «diffuse Holocaust» phase and generated mechanisms of extensive cooperation; (4) the values and norms that made sense to the Nazis in relation to the Holocaust, with a critical assessment of Nazi ethics insofar as it aimed at subverting the concept of evil and at destroying the self. This book deals with four key dimensions of the Holocaust: ideology, power, act, and meaning.

Nazism
Nazism

Author: Neil Gregor

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 0192892819

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This unique collection brings together extracts from the most innovative and stimulating studies of Nazism, including many forgotten or ignored older works. Nazism looks afresh at the structure, style of rule, and consequences of National Socialism and explores how successive generations of commentators and historians have sought to explain and understand the origins, nature, impact, and legacy of this regime of unprecedented destructiveness. With introductions to each section, to the authors, and a general introduction to the text, Neil Gregor presents a comprehensive coverage of the history and politics of this dramatic political movement.

Vernacular Politics in Northeast India
Vernacular Politics in Northeast India

Author: Jelle J. P. Wouters

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0192863460

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Perhaps nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast India. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India offers penetrating accounts into what guides and animates Northeast India's spirited political sphere, including the categories and values through which its peoples conceive of their 'political' lives. Fourteen essays by anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and geographers think their way afresh into the region's political life and sense. Collectively they show how different communities, instead of adjusting themselves to modern democratic ideals, adjust democracy to themselves, how ethnicity has become a politically pregnant expression of local identities, and how forms and politics of indigeneity assume a life of its own as it is taken on, articulated, reworked, and fought over by peoples.