Helmut Walser Smith

The Continuities of German History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Smith reexamines German continuities and sheds new light on nationalism, anti-Semitism and genocide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9780521895880
• ISBN-10: 052189588X
• Artikelnr.: 26184598

Autorenporträt

Helmut Walser Smith earned his PhD at Yale. He has held the position of Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University since 1992. He is the author of German Nationalism and Religious Conflict (1995) and The Butcher's Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town (2002), which won him the Fraenkel Prize for the best work in contemporary history and was named an LA Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The vanishing point of German history
2. The mirror turn lamp: senses of the nation before nationalism
3. On catastrophic religious violence and the national belonging: the Thirty Years' War and the massacre of Jews in social memory
4. From play to act: anti-Semitic violence in German and European history during the long nineteenth century
5. Eliminationist racism
6. Afterword: where the Sonderweg debate left us.