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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Evans, Richard J. (1947-....)
Titre(s) : The Third Reich in history and memory [Texte imprimé] / Richard J. Evans
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 483 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-457) and index
"In the seventy years since the demise of the Third Reich, there has been a significant
transformation in the ways in which the modern world understands Nazism. In this brilliant
and eye-opening collection, Richard J. Evans, the acclaimed author of the Third Reich
trilogy, offers a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major
changes in perspective have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in recent
years. Drawing on his most notable writings from the last two decades, Evans reveals
the shifting perspectives on Nazism's rise to political power, its economic intricacies,
and its subterranean extension into postwar Germany. Evans considers how the Third
Reich is increasingly viewed in a broader international context, as part of the age
of imperialism; discusses the growing emphasis on the larger economic and cultural
circumstances of the era; and emphasizes the development of research into Nazi society,
particularly in the understanding of Nazi Germany as a political system based on popular
approval and consent. Exploring the complex relationship between memory and history,
Evans also points out the places where the growing need to confront the misdeeds of
Nazism and expose the complicity of those who participated has led to crude and sweeping
condemnation, when instead historians should be making careful distinctions. Written
with Evans' sharp-eyed insight and characteristically compelling style, these essays
offer a summation of the collective cultural memory of Nazism in the present, and
suggest the degree to which memory must be subjected to the close scrutiny of history"
; "Since the end of the twentieth century, our understanding of Nazi Germany has been
transformed in a variety of ways. In this collected volume, Richard J. Evans offers
a critical commentary on that transformation, exploring how major changes in perspective
have informed research and writing on the Third Reich in the last two decades.The
essays, drawn from Evans' writings over the last two decades, move from the genesis
of Nazism, through its rise to political power and its economic and political intricacies,
to postwar Germany, considering at each point the suppression, reappropriation, and
survival of memory. Evans also explores the 'global turn' in historical studies in
recent years, revealing how it has broadened our understanding of the Third Reich
in an international context; considers the development of research in the area of
Nazi society, particularly in the understanding of Nazi Germany as a political system
based on popular approval and consent; and discusses the growing focus on postwar
Germany and its subterranean continuities with the Nazi era"
Sujet(s) : National-socialisme -- Histoire
Allemagne -- 1933-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190228392 (hardback) (alkaline paper). - ISBN 0190228393 (hardback) (alkaline
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44317932j
Notice n° :
FRBNF44317932
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
