Michael Burleigh Knihy

Nacistická restrukturalizace „třídní“ společnosti na základě rasové příslušnosti pohledem předních evropských historiků. V letech 1933 až 1945 se nacistický režim pokusil o restrukturalizaci „třídní“ společnosti na základě rasové příslušnosti. Kniha přibližuje ideje a práci institucí, které tuto snahu podporovaly a také odhaluje, jak nacistická politika ovlivňovala různé skupiny lidí, a to jak obětí, tak těch, kteří měli z dané situace prospěch. Autoři své dílo začínají diskuzí o původu nacistické rasové ideologie a potom demonstrují důkladnost a účelnost, s jakými byla uplatňována v oficiální politice. Nezabývají se pouze otázkou systematického pronásledování a likvidace Židů, kteří tvořili největší obětní skupinu nacismu, ale také osudem Romů a Sintiů, mentálně nemocných, „asociálů“ a homosexuálů. Nakonec se zaměřují na státní rasově motivovanou sociální politiku, která zasahovala do života každého německého „národního soudruha“. Hlavním cílem této politiky byla realizace rasově organizovaného státu a společnosti. Ve své knize dále dokládají, že „polykratický“ a chaotický charakter režimu, jak jej často současní historikové popisují, nezabraňoval nemilosrdné likvidaci jeho obětí a ani jí neomezoval. Třetí říše se zásadně lišila od všech ostatních totalitních režimů především svou všudypřítomnou rasovou politikou.

In een groots overzicht van de Europese eeuw van de Franse Revolutie tot het Pruisische bloedbad in Vlaanderen, beschrijft een belangrijke Engelse historicus de politieke strijd van de christelijke kerken tegen de liberale natiestaat, binnen de context van humanistische culten zoals het jakobijnse deïsme van Robespierre en marxistische visies op een klassenloze toekomst. Deze politieke religies, paradoxaal ontstaan uit het rationalisme van de Verlichting, beschouwen religie als een decoratie van de sociaaleconomische ontwikkeling, zonder te erkennen dat alleen Europa seculier werd. De sleutel tot de Europese ontwikkeling ligt in de rationalistische utopie van een perfect sociaal systeem, dat de christelijke transcendentie en het leven na de dood verdoemde. Dit leidde tot gewelddadige plannen voor een totale herstructurering van de wereld, zoals de jakobijnse genocide in de Vendée. Burleigh toont aan hoe in deze smeltkroes van ideologieën, nog steeds binnen een christelijke context, plannen ontstonden die later leidden tot nationaal en internationaal socialisme. Het werk is uiterst actueel en biedt stof tot nadenken over de toekomst van Europa.

This one-volume account of the Third Reich includes straightforward narrative history and analytic explanation while examining the religious enthusiasm and elemental passions generated by mass fascism.

This examination of the Second World War explores the moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaders, and how this changed under the impact of total war. Opening with the 'predators' - Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito - Burleigh analyses the moral dimensions and the war's most important moments.

Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazis systematically murdered as many as 200,000 mentally ill or physically disabled people whom they stigmatised as 'life unworthy of life'. This book is the first full-scale study in English of this complex and covert series of operations known as the 'euthanasia' programme. Using a wealth of original archive material, Michael Burleigh considers the role of all those involved in the programme: bureaucrats, doctors, nurses, health officials, lawyers, clerics, and also parents, relatives and the patients themselves. 'History writing is rarely this moving, or so admirably, effectively, moralistic' David Ceserani, The Guardian 'This is a terrible book. Everyone ought to read it. It is difficult to believe that this account could be improved upon' Anthony Storr, The Times 'Outstanding and chilling [Michael Burleigh] provides one of the most penetrating insights yet written into the individual mentalities - and the resulting collective "mentality" - of Nazism.' Niall Ferguson, The Sunday Telegraph 'An impressive and harrowing book whose suppleness, fluency and accretion of case histories and anecdotes particularise the horror.' Jonathan Meades, Mail on Sunday

12 leading historians from Germany, Britain, America and Israel ask what impact the Nazi regime had on German society. They also analyse the Nazi's racial policy and consider to what extent big business was in collusion with the Third Reich

A study of how relations between the Nazi regime and contemporary scholarly experts on eastern Europe eventually set an entire academic discipline on a path to biological racism through Nazi manipulation.

Distinguished historian and acclaimed author of "Earthly Powers" and "The Third Reich" offers a sweeping, deeply insightful history of terrorism from its 19th-century European and American origins to today's global threat fueled by fundamentalists. color photo insert.

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the financial crash of 2008 - have…

We are said to be living in an age of anger, and national populist movements are often identified as its political manifestation. In Populism Michael Burleigh explores this new global era, drawing on his Engelsberg Lectures. The first chapter explores the nature of mass anger, mainly in Europe and the US: how might popular discontent be artificially incited and sustained by elite figures claiming to speak for the common people? The second chapter compares the difficult aftermaths of empire in Britain and Russia. Has that experience fostered these countries' sense of exceptionality and inability to evolve into normal societies? Many national populist movements exploit History, as we saw with the so-called 'statue wars' reignited in 2020. The third chapter ranges across Europe, but also China, where a nationalised version of History has become intrinsic to social support for the ruling Communist Party. In the short term, COVID-19 has created problems for several populist leaders, whose image has suffered amidst the public's new-found respect for expertise and unfavourable comparisons with less shouty politicians who have handled the pandemic differently. Yet, with the looming risk of an extended economic depression, Burleigh fears that new post-populists may arise in the long run.

A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Cultureel-religieuze en politieke geschiedenis van (vooral) West-Europa vanaf het begin van de twintigste eeuw tot heden.