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Timothy Snyder - Black Earth, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2015

Black Earth

The Holocaust as History and Warning

Av Timothy Snyder

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A deep exploration of the ideas and politics of the Holocaust – and the uncomfortable lessons it holds for us today. The Holocaust is often viewed through the death factories of Auschwitz and the bureaucracy of mass murder. Yet by the time the first gas chambers became operational, more than a million Jews had already been shot over pits and ravines in the lawless killing zones created by the German colonial war in the east. Black Earth places the Nazi extermination of the Jews inside the political destruction of eastern Europe. It asks why Jews were more vulnerable in some places than others, and how citizenship, institutions, occupation and the removal of state protection shaped chances of survival. Timothy Snyder also returns to Hitler’s obsession with land and food showing how racial ideology and the pursuit of Lebensraum turned eastern Europe into bloodlands. By making the political conditions of mass murder more intelligible, Snyder challenges our comforting belief that the Holocaust belongs to circumstances that can never recur. As ideological and environmental challenges mount today, our societies might be more vulnerable than we would like to think. 'Wholly readable and utterly persuasive’ Observer
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-09-17
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781473522701
  • Förlag: Random House (Digital)
  • Utmärkelser: Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2015 (UK)
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Timothy Snyder has been called ‘the leading interpreter of our dark times’. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge towards counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians and populists. After a quarter century at Yale, he now teaches history at the Munk School in the University of Toronto and his books, which have been published in over forty languages, include Bloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, Road to Unfreedom, Our Malady and On Freedom. His work has inspired poster campaigns and exhibitions, sculptures, a punk rock song, a rap song, a play and an opera, and he has appeared in over fifty films and documentaries.

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"In this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitler's genocide firmly in the politics and diplomacy of 1930s Europe. Black Earth is required reading for anyone who cares about this difficult period of history" -- Anne Applebaum "Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future" -- Ian Kershaw "Part history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and challenging reinterpretation" -- Henry A. Kissinger "Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew" -- Deborah Lipstadt "Timothy Snyder's Black Earth is not only a powerful exposure of the horrors of the Holocaust but also a compelling dissection of the Holocaust's continuing threat" -- Zbigniew Brzezinski

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