Why are Germans so well informed on World War II while most Japanese know almost nothing about it? Why do the majority of West Germans feel guilty, Japanese victimised, and 'Ossies' virtuous? Ian Buruma explores the causes of these varied attitudes, both in the past culture of each country and in their post-war treatment and other subsequent events, and looks at how they were ...(展开全部)

An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial new book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision- ultimately hindered by Germany's limited resources and his own racial ideology-was to create a German ...(展开全部)

The Wages of Destruction is an award-winning non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany. Written by Adam Tooze, it was first published by Allen Lane in 2006. The Wages of Destruction won the Wolfson History Prize and the 2007 Longman/History Today Book of the Year Prize. It was published to critical praise from such authors as Michael Burleigh, Richard Over...(展开全部)

This chilling, fascinating new book is the first fully to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European Empire strong enough to take on the United S...(展开全部)

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger’s widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underp...(展开全部)

大卫·R.罗迪格（David R. Roediger） 美国堪萨斯大学基金会杰出教授，曾任美国研究协会主席。大学毕业于伊利诺伊州公立学校，并于西北大学获得博士学位。其近期著作包括《抓住自由：奴隶解放与全民自由》（Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All）、《种族的美国沉浮史：从殖民奴役到奥巴马现象》（How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon）。此外，还和伊丽莎白·D. 埃施（Elizabeth D. Esch）合著《差异的产生：美国历史上的种族和劳工管理》（The Production of Difference: Race and the Manageme...(展开全部)

大卫·R.罗迪格（David R. Roediger） 美国堪萨斯大学基金会杰出教授，曾任美国研究协会主席。大学毕业于伊利诺伊州公立学校，并于西北大学获得博士学位。其近期著作包括《抓住自由：奴隶解放与全民自由》（Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All）、《种族的美国沉浮史：从殖民奴役到奥巴马现象》（How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon）。此外，还和伊丽莎白·D. 埃施（Elizabeth D. Esch）合著《差异的产生：美国历史上的种族和劳工管理》（The Production of Difference: Race and the Manageme...(展开全部)

大卫·R.罗迪格（David R. Roediger） 美国堪萨斯大学基金会杰出教授，曾任美国研究协会主席。大学毕业于伊利诺伊州公立学校，并于西北大学获得博士学位。其近期著作包括《抓住自由：奴隶解放与全民自由》（Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All）、《种族的美国沉浮史：从殖民奴役到奥巴马现象》（How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon）。此外，还和伊丽莎白·D. 埃施（Elizabeth D. Esch）合著《差异的产生：美国历史上的种族和劳工管理》（The Production of Difference: Race and the Manageme...(展开全部)