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  • The "Goldhagen Effect"

    History, Memory, Nazism--Facing the German Past

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Stepping back from the immediate controversy surrounding the merits and shortcomings of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners, this edited volume intervenes in the continuing discussion by exploring aspects of the public's reception to Goldhagen's book--what the authors call the "Goldhagen Effect." The first essay, by Omer Bartov, examines the extent to which the book's reception ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870-1930 draws together important new work on the Kaiserreich--the period between Bismarck's unification of Germany and the First World War. Work on the Kaiserreich built up impressive momentum during the 1970s and 1980s, when a series of inspiring but divisive controversies called into question the ways in which German historical development in the ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Modernist Wish

    A History of Europe, 1914-1939

    by Geoff Eley ...
    As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? The 1920s and 1930s were a time of paradox, of great conflict and contradiction. If those years were the crucible of a new metropolitan modernity and its possibilities, what were the forward-moving forces and ideas? What were their effects and where did they lead? The Modernist Wish provides a comprehensive, non-hierarchical and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • History Made Conscious

    Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past

    by Geoff Eley ...
    How History has changed in the half-century since the 1960sDuring the last fifty years, the writing of history underwent two massive transformations. First, powered by Marxism and other materialist sociologies, the great social history wave instated the value of social explanation.Then, responding to new theoretical debates, the cultural turn upset many of those freshly earned certainties. Each ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Crooked Line

    From Cultural History to the History of Society

    by Geoff Eley ...
    "Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."--Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic"A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the landscape of historical scholarship that have occurred in the last four decades. Part personal history, part insightful ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Forging Democracy

    The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve orgainically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Nazism as Fascism

    Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany 1930-1945

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Offering a dynamic and wide-ranging examination of the key issues at the heart of the study of German Fascism, Nazism as Fascism brings together a selection of Geoff Eley’s most important writings on Nazism and the Third Reich.Featuring a wealth of revised, updated and new material, Nazism as Fascism analyses the historiography of the Third Reich and its main interpretive approaches. Themes ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Forging Democracy

    The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000

    by Geoff Eley ...
    Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve orgainically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of prosperity, or the negative cement of the Cold War. Rather, it was painstakingly crafted, continually expanded, and doggedly defended by ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • After the Nazi Racial State

    Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history."---Frank Biess, University of California, San DiegoWhat happened to "race," race ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • From Unification to Nazism

    Reinterpreting the German Past

    by Eley Geoff ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: German History
    Originally published in 1986, and bringing together essays written over a 10 year period, this volume offers a coherent and challenging interpretation of the German past. The book argues that the German Empire between 1971 and 1914 may have enjoyed greater stability and cohesion than is often assumed. It suggests that Imperial Germany’s political institutions showed considerable flexibility and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • German Colonialism in a Global Age

    Edited by Bradley Naranch, Geoff Eley ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar

    A Contest of Futures

    Edited by Professor Geoff Eley, Professor Jennifer L. Jenkins, Professor Tracie Matysik ...
    What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany's navigation through a period of global capitalism, imperial expansion, and technological transformation?German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar brings together leading historians of the Imperial and Weimar periods from across North America to readdress the question of German modernities. Acutely attentive to ... Read more

    $39.69 USD