The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-30861-8
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 8th November 2007
- Pages: 384
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About the Book
The Routledge Companion to Nazi Germany combines a concise narrative overview with chronological, bibliographical and tabular information to cover all major aspects of Nazi Germany. This user-friendly guide provides a comprehensive survey of key topics such as the origins and consolidation of the Nazi regime, the Nazi dictatorship in action, Nazi foreign policy, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the opposition to the regime and the legacy of Nazism.
Features include:
- detailed chronologies
- a discussion of Nazi ideology
- succinct historiographical overview with more detailed information on more than sixty major historians of Nazism
- biographies of 150 leading figures of Nazi Germany
- a glossary of terms, concepts and acronyms
- maps and tables
- a concise thematic bibliography of works on the Third Reich.
This indispensable reference guide to the history and historiography of Nazi Germany will appeal to students, teachers and general readers alike.
Reviews
‘At some point in your career there may come the moment when this book is tha answer to an unsaid prayer … This is the book that will rescue you. This is not so much a companion to Nazi Germany as a compendium’ – History Teaching Review
'This well-informed and moderately priced work succeeds in its object of explaining the many controversies arising from historical interpretation of a catastrophic period of European history, while leaving its readers to make up their own minds which view is most convincing to them.' -- K.C.Fraiser, St Andrews University
'Altogether this is a very useful book, especially for those beginning their studies.' – Contemporary Review
Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Background Part 1: Nazi Germany in Historical Perspective 2. Chronology 3. Historiography 4. A–Z of Historians. Tables and Maps Part 2: Nazi Germany: The Major Topics 5. Origins and Consolidation 6. Dictatorship in Action 7. Foreign Policy, War and the Holocaust 8. Opposition and Legacy Part 3: Nazi Germany: Names, Terms and Sources 9. Biographies 10. Glossary 11. Bibliography
About the Author(s)
Roderick Stackelberg is Emeritus Professor of History at Gonzaga University. He is the author of Hitler’s Germany: Origins, Interpretations, Legacies (1999) and Idealism Debased: From Volkisch Ideology to National Socialism (1981), and co-editor of The Nazi Germany Sourcebook (2002).
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Praise for the first edition:
'This is an important new textbook on the Nazi period which is geared to intermediate and advanced undergraduates and will also...