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  • Hitler's Geographies

    The Spatialities of the Third Reich

    Edited by Paolo Giaccaria, Claudio Minca ...
    Lebensraum: the entitlement of "legitimate" Germans to living space. Entfernung: the expulsion of "undesirables" to create empty space for German resettlement. During his thirteen years leading Germany, Hitler developed and made use of a number of powerful geostrategical concepts such as these in order to justify his imperialist expansion, exploitation, and genocide. As his twisted manifestation ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Local Development and Competitiveness

    by S. Conti, P. Giaccaria ...
    Series Book 59 - GeoJournal Library
    In recent years, the contemporary social sciences have again turned their attention to space and places. The hypothesis is that these are not accidental episodes but a full-blown revolution in the way of viewing economic processes and their links with social and cultural structures. In other words, this new sensitivity to places offers the possibility of rethinking issues typical of economics in a ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period’s most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw’s research on the Holocaust for the first time. The writings are arranged in three sections-Hitler and the Final Solution, popular opinion and the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany

    The New Histories

    Edited by Nikolaus Wachsmann, Jane Caplan ...
    The notorious concentration camp system was a central pillar of the Third Reich, supporting the Nazi war against political, racial and social outsiders whilst also intimidating the population at large. Established during the first months of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, several million men, women and children of many nationalities had been incarcerated in the camps by the end of the Second World ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • A World to Win

    The Life and Works of Karl Marx

    by Sven-Eric Liedman ...
    Translated by Jeffrey N. Skinner ...
    This essential Karl Marx biography expertly weaves the complex personality of the legendary thinker through the turbulent passage of global history.The first biography to give equal weight to both the work and life of Karl Marx, A World to Win follows Marx through childhood and student days, a difficult and sometimes tragic family life, his far-sighted journalism, and his enduring friendship and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Believe and Destroy

    Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

    by Christian Ingrao ...
    There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party’s elite protection unit, the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Atlantic Realists

    Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States

    by Matthew Specter ...
    In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a set of universally binding truths about international affairs, Specter argues that its major ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Fascism

    by Roger Griffin ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Political Theory
    The word ‘fascism’ sometimes appears to have become a catch-all term of abuse, applicable to anyone on the political right, from Hitler to Donald Trump and from Putin to Thatcher. While some argue that it lacks any distinctive conceptual meaning at all, others have supplied highly elaborate definitions of its ‘essential’ features. It is therefore a concept that presents unique challenges for any ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Ecofascism Revisited

    Lessons from the German Experience

    by Janet Biehl, Peter Staudenmaier ...
    The disconcerting reappearance of fascism in many parts of the Western world since the late twentieth century has prompted a re-evaluation of previous political assumptions. One of the more controversial facets of this process centers on the role of ecological ideas and practices within fascist circles, historically as well as today. The effort by fascist ideologists and groups to appropriate ... Read more

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  • The Dialectical Imagination

    A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950

    by Martin Jay ...
    Series Book 10 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal—the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe

    by Heidemarie Uhl, Richard J. Golsan ...
    For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and textbooks. It has had profound implications for democratization and relations between neighboring ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Germany's War and the Holocaust

    Disputed Histories

    by Omer Bartov ...
    "While attempts to come to terms with past catastrophe... can help prevent its recurrence, they may also provide arguments for... actions against the real or imagined perpetrators of previous disasters. The confrontation with... catastrophe can help us understand the roots and nature of this century's destructive urges, as well as humanity's extraordinary recuperative capacities; but it can also ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD