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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Visualizing Fascism

    The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right

    Edited by Julia Adeney Thomas, Geoff Eley ...
    Visualizing Fascism argues that fascism was not merely a domestic menace in a few European nations, but arose as a genuinely global phenomenon in the early twentieth century. Contributors use visual materials to explore fascism's populist appeal in settings around the world, including China, Japan, South Africa, Slovakia, and Spain. This visual strategy allows readers to see the transnational rise ... Read more

    $25.19 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

    $66.99 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

    $93.59 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

    $39.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $93.59 USD

  • Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany

    Edited by Geoff Eley, Jan Palmowski ...
    This book is one of the first to use citizenship as a lens through which to understand German history in the twentieth century. By considering how Germans defined themselves and others, the book explores how nationality and citizenship rights were constructed, and how Germans defined—and contested—their national community over the century. The volume presents new research informed by cultural, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD