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Historische Debatten und Kontroversen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
Historische Debatten und Kontroversen uber Phanomene der menschlichen Vergangenheit haben die Geschichtswissenschaft seit ihren Anfangen begleitet und sind in vielen Fallen auch in einer breiteren Offentlichkeit auf Resonanz gestoaen. Bei der systematisch-vergleichenden Betrachtung dieser Diskurse fallt auf, dass sie einerseits zum Motor konstruktiven Erkenntnisfortschritts, andererseits zum Instrument fur das Erreichen gegenwartiger, haufig politischer Ziele werden konnten. Insbesondere wenn Konstruktion, Variation oder Destruktion eines oder mehrerer grundsatzlicher gesellschaftlicher Mythen in der Debatte mitschwingen, sind umfangreiche Verwerfungen zu erwarten. Zusammenfassend lasst sich immer wieder feststellen, dass die polemische Intensitat einer Kontroverse sich zum wissenschaftlichen Erkenntniswert umgekehrt proportional verhalt, da nur die Einhaltung diskursiver Regeln im Sinne der Prinzipien von afair playo die Bedingungen fur konstruktive und produktive Auseinandersetzungen schafft. (Franz Steiner 2002)
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Third Reich
The twelve years of the Third Reich casts a dark shadow over history. Fierce debates still rage over many of the hows, whys and wherefores of this perplexing period. Leading expert on German history, Martin Kitchen, provides a concise, accessible and provocative account of Nazi Germany. It takes into account the political, social, economic and cultural ramifications, and sets it within the context of the times, while pointing out those areas that still defy our understanding. This lively account addresses major issues such as the reasons for Hitler’s extraordinary popularity, his hold over the German people even when all seemed lost, the role of ideology, the cooption of the elites, and the descent into war for race and space, culminating in the horrors of the holocaust.
The Betrayal of the Humanities
How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went...
Paths of Continuity
The defeat of National Socialism in 1945 was a pivotal point in Central European history. For the writing and practice of history, however, the event proved far less decisive. In West Germany and Austria, most historians who had taught under the Nazis retained their positions after 1945. Even those dismissed for their National Socialist sympathies were often able to resume their careers. And an entire generation of younger historians, trained during the Nazi years, was to enter the historical profession after 1945. Paths of Continuity examines the effect of this professional continuity on West German historical scholarship, and the impact of the Third Reich on the way German-language histori...
The Search for Normality
The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected unification of the country in 1989/90 and analyses the most recent trends in German historiography, hoping that it doesn't return to the stifling homogeneity that characterized it before the 1960s.
The Quest for the Lost Nation
"Extraordinarily compelling. The Quest for the Lost Nation is a model for comparative history-and should serve as an incentive for a new generation to do more of this kind of work."--Michael Geyer, University of Chicago.
Royal Heirs
Illuminates the role played by the heirs to the throne in the survival of monarchy in nineteenth-century Europe.
