George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas – serie
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Unlearning Eugenics
Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe
Häftad, 2020
295 kr
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Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. Dagmar Herzog documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights canon, came to be …
Best Weapon for Peace
Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
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The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870–1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon for Peace, Erica Moretti …
Of God and Gods
Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
Av Jan Assmann
Häftad, 2008
289 kr
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For thousands of years, our world has been shaped by biblical monotheism. But its hallmark - a distinction between one true God and many false gods - was once a new and radical idea. ""Of God and Gods"" explores the revolutionary newness of biblical theology against a background of the polytheism …
Crisis of German Ideology
Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich
Häftad, 2021
254 kr
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This new edition revisits the renowned historian George L. Mosse’s landmark work exploring the ideological foundations of Nazism in Germany. First published in 1964, this volume was among the first to examine the intellectual origins of the Third Reich. Mosse introduced readers to what is known as …
Confronting History
A Memoir
Häftad, 2013
232 kr
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Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of the great American historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century.Confronting History …
Collected Memories
Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony
Häftad, 2003
211 kr
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Christopher R. Browning addresses some of the most heated controversies surrounding the use of postwar testimony: Hannah Arendt's uncritical acceptance of Eichmann's self-portrayal; the conviction of Ivan Demjanjuk on the basis of survivor testimony and its subsequent reversal by the Israeli …
What History Tells
George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe
Av Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
225 kr
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What History Tells presents an impressive collection of critical papers from the September 2001 conference ""An Historian's Legacy: George L. Mosse and Recent Research on Fascism, Society, and Culture."" This book examines Mosse's historiographical legacy, first within the context of his own life …
Jews in Mussolini's Italy
From Equality to Persecution
Häftad, 2006
342 kr
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Often overshadowed by the persecution of Jews in Germany, the treatment of Jews in fascist Italy comes into sharp focus in this volume by Italian historian Michele Sarfatti. Using thorough and careful statistical evidence to document how the Italian social climate changed from relatively just to …
Carl Schmitt and the Jews
The ""Jewish Question, "" the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory
Inbunden, 2007
474 kr
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German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and …
Cataclysms
A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe's Edge
Av Dan Diner
Inbunden, 2007
414 kr
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Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on the legendary stairs of Odessa and watches as events between the Baltic and the Aegean pass in …
Jews and Other Germans
Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925
Häftad, 2008
342 kr
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Jews and Other Germans is the first social and cultural history to probe the parameters of Jewish integration in the half century between the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the early Weimar Republic. Questioning received wisdom about German-Jewish assimilation and the pervasiveness of …
Some Measure of Justice
The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s
Häftad, 2009
342 kr
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Can there ever be justice for the Holocaust? During the 1990s - triggered by lawsuits in the United States against Swiss banks, German corporations, insurance companies, and owners of valuable works of art - claimants and their lawyers sought to rectify terrible wrongs committed more than a half …
Enemy of the New Man
Homosexuality in Fascist Italy
Inbunden, 2012
603 kr
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In this first in-depth historical study of homosexuality in Fascist Italy, Lorenzo Benadusi brings to light immensely important archival documents regarding the sexual politics of the Italian Fascist regime; he adds new insights to the study of the complex relationships of masculinity, sexuality, …
Perils of Normalcy
George L. Mosse and the Remaking of Cultural History
Häftad, 2014
412 kr
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A taboo-breaker and a great provocateur, George L. Mosse (1918–99) was one of the great historians of the twentieth century, forging a new historiography of culture that included brilliant insights about the roles of nationalism, fascism, racism, and sexuality. Jewish, gay, and a member of a …
Holocaust and the West German Historians
Historical Interpretation and Autobiographical Memory
Häftad, 2015
400 kr
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This landmark book was first published in Germany, provoking both acclaim and controversy. In this ""history of historiography,"" Nicolas Berg addresses the work of German and German-Jewish historians in the first three decades of post–World War II Germany. He examines how they perceived - and …
Shaping the New Man
Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Inbunden, 2015
741 kr
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Despite their undeniable historical importance, the leaders of the Fascist and Nazi youth organizations have received little attention from historians. In Shaping the New Man, Alessio Ponzio uncovers the largely untold story of the training and education of these crucial protagonists of the Fascist …
Reason After Its Eclipse
On Late Critical Theory
Av Martin Jay
Häftad, 2017
247 kr
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Martin Jay tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavor? Applying the tools of intellectual history, he examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term ""reason"" over …
Invisible Jewish Budapest
Metropolitan Culture at the Fin De Siècle
Av Mary Gluck
Inbunden, 2016
473 kr
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Budapest at the fin de siècle was famed and emulated for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck delves into the popular culture of Budapest’s coffee houses, music halls, and humor magazines to uncover the enormous influence of …
Invisible Jewish Budapest
Metropolitan Culture at the Fin De Siècle
Av Mary Gluck
Häftad, 2019
254 kr
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Budapest at the fin de siècle was famed and emulated for its cosmopolitan urban culture and nightlife. It was also the second-largest Jewish city in Europe. Mary Gluck delves into the popular culture of Budapest’s coffee houses, music halls, and humor magazines to uncover the enormous influence of …
Shaping the New Man
Youth Training Regimes in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Häftad, 2017
247 kr
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Despite their undeniable importance, the leaders of the Fascist and Nazi youth organizations have received little attention from historians. In Shaping the New Man, Alessio Ponzio uncovers the largely untold story of the training and education of these crucial protagonists of the Fascist and Nazi …
Unlearning Eugenics
Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe
Inbunden, 2018
473 kr
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Since the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and the end of its horrific eugenics policies, battles over the politics of life, sex, and death have continued and evolved. Dagmar Herzog documents how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights canon, came to be …
Last Days of Theresienstadt
Inbunden, 2018
307 kr
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In February of 1945, during the final months of the Third Reich, Eva Noack-Mosse was deported to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. A trained journalist and expert typist, she was put to work in the Central Evidence office of the camp, compiling endless lists—inmates arriving, inmates …
Nationalism and Sexuality
Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe
Häftad, 2020
240 kr
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This landmark work by George L. Mosse, first published in 1985, examines the history of sexuality through the lens of bourgeois respectability and nationalism. Using a daring breadth of German and English sources, Nationalism and Sexuality pioneered the use of gender stereotypes as a methodology …
Toward the Final Solution
A History of European Racism
Häftad, 2020
254 kr
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Originally published in 1978, Toward the Final Solution was one of the first in-depth studies of the evolution of racism in Europe, from the Age of Enlightenment through the Holocaust and Hitler's Final Solution. George L. Mosse details how antisemitism and dangerous prejudices have long existed in …
Best Weapon for Peace
Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights
Inbunden, 2021
967 kr
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The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians tend to consider her writings on this topic as secondary to her pedagogy. In The Best Weapon for Peace, Erica Moretti …
Messengers of Disaster
Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides
Inbunden, 2022
473 kr
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Leading up to World War II, two Polish men witnessed the targeted extermination of Jews under Adolf Hitler and the German Reich before the reality of the Holocaust was widely known. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," and Jan Karski, a Catholic member of the Polish …
Respectability and Violence
Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy's Road to Mass Death
Inbunden, 2021
938 kr
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In the aftermath of national unification in the 1860s, the Italian army was tasked with molding generations of men from warring regions and different social strata into obedient citizens of a centralized state. Integrating large numbers of the educated middle classes into the young kingdom's armed …
Fascination with the Persecutor
George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man
Inbunden, 2021
938 kr
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In 1933, George L. Mosse fled Berlin and settled in the United States, where he went on to become a renowned historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Through rigorous and innovative scholarship, Mosse uncovered the forces that spurred antisemitism, racism, nationalism, and populism. His …
History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922-1943
Inbunden, 2022
473 kr
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Alessandra Tarquini's A History of Italian Fascist Culture, 1922–1943 is widely recognized as an authoritative synthesis of the field. The book was published to much critical acclaim in 2011 and revised and expanded five years later. This long-awaited translation presents Tarquini's compact, clear …
Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination
Inbunden, 2023
938 kr
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George L. Mosse (1918–99) was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual historians of modern Europe. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he was an early leader in the study of fascism and the history of sexuality and masculinity, authoring more than two dozen books. In ContemporaryEurope in …
