The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation: 11 - Softcover

Ian Kershaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340760281 ISBN 13: 9780340760284

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2000

Synopsis

As an exploration of the interpretational issues that eddy around the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw's The Nazi Dictatorship has become a classic account. But if its core remains unchanged, its contents must necessarily reflect both new public controversies and the onrush of fresh research. In the fourth edition there are many changes of detail to accommodate this need and substantial rewritings of two chapters. No subject among those dealt with in earlier editions has been the subject of such intensive research - and bringing such rapidly changing interpretations - as `Hitler and the Jews' and, accordingly, that chapter has been considerably changed. The book's final chapter has also undergone significant revision, to take account of the `Goldhagen phenomenon', and to glance back over the changing trends of research on the Third Reich as, with the passing of the generations, Hitler and his regime themselves pass into history.

About this title

Review:

Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich. (International History Review)

Impressive...acute...extraordinary. (English Historical Review)

The best short introduction to the study of Hitler's Germany. (European History Quarterly)

From the Publisher:

Reviewers agree on the excellence of this book.
When this book appeared, European History Quarterly hailed it as 'The best short introduction to the study of Hitler's Germany'. Others were no less complimentary: Richard Bessel, writing in the English Historical Review, mentioned Kershaw's 'extraordinary' 'ability to translate extremely complicated discussions into clear prose.' For readers who want to understand more fully, and on a broader plane, the issues of interpretation encountered in the same author's major new biography of Hitler, this is the book to buy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340760281
• ISBN 13: 9780340760284
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 304