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Totalitarianism
The great twentieth-century political philosopher examines how Hitler and Stalin gained and maintained power, and the nature of totalitarian states. In the final volume of her classic work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt focuses on the two genuine forms of the totalitarian state in modern history: the dictatorships of Bolshevism after 1930 and of National Socialism after 1938. Identifying terror as the very essence of this form of government, she discusses the transformation of classes into masses and the use of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world—and in her brilliant concluding chapter, she analyzes the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination. “The most original and profound—therefore the most valuable—political theoretician of our times.” —Dwight Macdonald, The New Leader
Juden im Wilhelminischen Deutschland, 1890-1914
Der vorliegende Band ... ist zweifellos ein Ereignis der modernen Geistes- und Sozialgeschichte: nach vielen wichtigen Einzelstudien verfugen wir damit uber ein komplexes vielgestaltiges Werk, welches uberraschende Einblicke erschliesst, Deutungen anbietet, aber auch Fragen stellt.Peter Steinbach in Jahrbuch fur die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, Bd. 27Insgesamt ist die Qualitat dieses Sammelbandes hervorzuheben, der zahlreiche ausgezeichnete Beitrage enthalt. Da die Aufsatze nicht nur wissenschaftlich hervorragend, sondern auch gut lesbar sind, ist der Band auch als Einfuhrung in die vielschichtigen Probleme des deutschen Judentums sehr geeignet. Er enthalt eine umfangreiche Bibliographie und ein Personen- und Sachregister.W.-A. Kropat in Nassauische Annalen 88. Jg. (1977)
The Pan-German League and Radical Nationalist Politics in Interwar Germany, 1918-39
Through an examination of the Pan-German League - one of Germany's most prominent radical nationalist groups - and its connections to a range of right-wing organizations between 1918 and 1939, this study provides important new insights into the political fragmentation of the German Right and the Nazi seizure of power. It is the first book to examine in detail the Pan-German League's political activities in the Weimar and Nazi periods. Unlike existing studies that focus primarily on the League's ideology and public pronouncements, this book analyzes the organization's political connections with other prominent right-wing groups. Specifically, it explores Pan-German efforts to reshape the land...
Karl Lamprecht
This is the first biography of the historian Karl Lamprecht, whose theories of historical method unleashed a bitter controversy, which colored the writing of history in Germany well into the twentieth century.
Hating America
Reviled as an imperialist power, an exporter of destructive capitalism, an arrogant crusader against Islam, and a rapacious over-consumer casually destroying the planet, it seems that the United States of America has rarely been less esteemed in the eyes of the world. In such an environment, one can easily overlook the fact that people from other countries have, in fact, been hating America for centuries. Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin here draw on sources from a wide range of countries to track the entire trajectory of anti-Americanism. With this powerful work, the Rubins trace the paradox that is America, a country that is both the most reviled and most envied land on earth. In the end, they demonstrate, anti-Americanism has often been a visceral response to the very idea--as well as both the ideals and policies--of America itself, its aggressive innovation, its self-confidence, and the challenge it poses to alternative ideologies.
The Rise of Political Anti-semitism in Germany & Austria
To understand the 20th century, we must know the 19th. It was then that an ancient prejudice was forged into a modern political weapon. How and why this happened is shown in this classic study by Peter Pulzer, first published in 1964 and now reprinted with a new Introduction by the author.
German Nationalism and Religious Conflict
The German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, Helmut Walser Smith offers the first social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues that Protestants and Catholics lived in different worlds, separated by an "invisible boundary" of culture, defined as a community of meaning. As these worlds came into contact, they also came into conflict. Smith explores the local as well as the national dimensions of this conflict, illuminating for the first time the history of the Protestant League as well as the dilemmas involved in Catholic integration into a national culture defined pr...
