The 'racial state' has become a familiar shorthand for the Third Reich, encapsulating its raison d'être, ambitions, and the underlying logic of its genocidal violence. The Nazi racial state's agenda is generally understood as a fundamental reshaping of society based on a new hierarchy of racial value. However, this volume argues that it is time to reappraise what race really meant under Nazism, and to question and complicate its relationship to the Nazis' agenda, actions, and appeal. Based on a wealth of new research, the contributors show that racial knowledge and racial discourse in Nazi Germany were far more contradictory and disparate than we have come to assume. They shed new light on the ways that racial policy worked and was understood, and consider race's function, content, and power in relation to society and nation, and above all, in relation to the extraordinary violence unleashed by the Nazis.
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Weight: 790g
Dimensions: 150 x 228mm
Publication Date: 16 Nov 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781316616994
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Devin O. Pendas is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. He received his B.A. from Carleton College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the history of Holocaust trials after World War II and the history of international law and mass violence. His publications include The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 19631965: Genocide History and the Limits of the Law (Cambridge 2006) and Political Trials in History and Theory (co-edited Cambridge 2017). Mark Roseman is Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor in History at Indiana University. Trained at Cambridge and Warwick Universities in the UK he has taught in the UK and the USA. His books include The Past in Hiding (2000) The Villa the Lake the Meeting. The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution (2002) and Jewish Responses to Persecution 19331946 Volume 1 (with Jürgen Matthäus 2010). Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. Trained at Swarthmore College Columbia University and Stanford University he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and has taught at the University of Maryland Georgetown University and the Catholic University of America. His research focuses on the intersection of law science and politics in modern Germany. His publications include Inventing the Criminal: A History of German Criminology 18801945 (2000) Engineering Society (co-edited 2012) and Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany (2014).
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