Description
| Product ID: | 9781805393344 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Persistence of Race |
| Subtitle: | Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism |
| Authors: | Author: Lara Day, Oliver Haag |
| Page Count: | 274 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, European history, History, Social discrimination and social justice, European history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Social discrimination & inequality, Germany, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras. Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-07-05 |