Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
10 best books like Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (Peter Gay): How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, Sonnets to Orpheus, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Rome: An Empire's Story, The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernity, The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
| Author | Daniel Immerwahr |
| ISBN | 0374172145 |
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
| Author | Christina Thompson |
| ISBN | 0062060872 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than...
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 0393328856 |
To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of...
| Author | Jason Stanley |
| ISBN | 0525511830 |
"A vital read for a nation under Trump."---The Guardian
"By placing Trump in transnational and transhistorical perspective, Stanley sees patterns that others miss. . . . Twenty months into Trump's presidency, the evidence is mounting that he's right."--The New York Times Book Review...
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
| Author | Anna Merlan |
| ISBN | 1250159059 |
A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.
American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump,...
| Author | Lawrence W. Levine |
| ISBN | 0674390776 |
In this wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century & covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera & vaudeville, America's leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable & dynamic...
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth century—one whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written the authoritative history that this fascinating...
The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa--and sometimes even further afield.
In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire...
| Author | Detlev J.K. Peukert |
| ISBN | 0809015560 |
The nature of Weimar's terminal crisis - how a politically liberal and culturally progressive society could succomb to fascism - remains one of the central historical questions of our century. In this major work, Detlev J.K. Peukert offers a stimulating interpretation that not only places Weimar...
The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
| Author | Benjamin Carter Hett |
| ISBN | 1250162505 |
A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen
Why did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf Hitler...
