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  • Ideocracies in Comparison

    Legitimation – Cooptation – Repression

    Edited by Uwe Backes, Steffen Kailitz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Ideocracies, or ideological dictatorships, such as the "Third Reich", the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China have, much more than any other kinds of autocracy, characterized the history of the 20th century. Despite their undeniable loss of significance, ideocracies have not disappeared from the world in the 21st century. This book explores the functioning of ideocracies and analyses ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Political Extremes

    A conceptual history from antiquity to the present

    by Uwe Backes ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    The Western tradition of the constitutional state, with its ancient roots, defines political extremes as the epitome of that what must be absolutely rejected. It highlights tyranny, despotism, despotic rule, non-autonomy, ruthless enforcing of interests as ‘extreme’, contrasting this to a virtuous mean which guarantees moderation. In this volume, the culmination of twenty years of extensive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Civil Democracy Protection

    Success Conditions of Non-Governmental Organisations in Comparison

    Edited by Uwe Backes, Thomas Lindenberger ...
    Series series
    Civil Democracy Protection is an overview of attempts by organisations to oppose groups that are perceived to threaten democracy.The book traces the history of civil democracy protection actors from the establishment of democratic constitutional states up to the present day and develops a set of systematic and comparative approaches. The central question it explores is: What significance do civil ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Blood and Culture

    Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations. Drawing on research she conducted at German vocational schools ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Against the Nation

    Anti-National Politics in Germany

    by Robert Ogman ...
    Following the German reunification process in the 1990s, a new movement appeared in Germany. This movement rejected all forms of nationalism, including the desirability and legitimacy of national communities, borders, and the existence of the nation-state itself.Against the Nation covers the background of this movement—the rise of Neo-Nazism, racist violence, restriction in immigration policies, ... Read more

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  • Eurowhiteness

    Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project

    by Hans Kundnani ...
    The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history--in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with "whiteness." Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for imperial amnesia. Narratives of European integration emphasise the lessons of war and the Holocaust ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Capitalism and the Jews

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
    How the fate of the Jews has been shaped by the development of capitalismThe unique historical relationship between capitalism and the Jews is crucial to understanding modern European and Jewish history. But the subject has been addressed less often by mainstream historians than by anti-Semites or apologists. In this book Jerry Muller, a leading historian of capitalism, separates myth from reality ... Read more

    $20.19 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

  • Europe's Fault Lines

    Racism and the Rise of the Right

    by Elizabeth Fekete ...
    An expansive investigation into the relationship between contemporary states and the far-rightIt is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone’s minds is: how did this happen?An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly configured right interconnects with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Beyond Totalitarianism

    Stalinism and Nazism Compared

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. Doing the labor of comparison gives us the means to ascertain the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Blackening of Europe: Ideologies & International Developments

    The Blackening of Europe, #1

    by Clare Ellis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Blackening of Europe
    The Blackening of Europe is a critical analysis of the historical and ideological origins of the European Union, with special regard to the consequences of these developments for the indigenous Europeans who presently risk becoming demographic and political minorities in their own homelands.Broken into three volumes, Volume I. Ideologies and International Developments traces the seeds of the ... Read more

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