The Origins of Nazi Violence

Informationen zum Autor Enzo Traverso is professor of political science at the Jules Verne University of Amiens and the author of numerous books on history and totalitarianism. Klappentext In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity's industrialization of killing and dehumanization of death. Traverso upends the conventional presentation of the Holocaust as an inexplicable anomaly, navigating an excess of antecedents both technical and cultural. Deftly tracing a complex lineage-the guillotine and machine gun, the prison and assembly line, as well as widespread ideologies of racial supremacy and colonial expansion-Traverso reveals that the ideas that coalesced at Auschwitz came from Europe's mainstream and not its margins. Zusammenfassung In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism , innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now, in a brilliant synthesis of this work, Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final, terrible moment in European modernity's industrialization of killing and dehumanization of death. Traverso upends the conventional presentation of the Holocaust as an inexplicable anomaly, navigating an excess of antecedents both technical and cultural. Deftly tracing a complex lineage—the guillotine and machine gun, the prison and assembly line, as well as widespread ideologies of racial supremacy and colonial expansion—Traverso reveals that the ideas that coalesced at Auschwitz came from Europe's mainstream and not its margins.

Product details

• Authors: Enzo Traverso, Traverso Enzo
• Assisted by: Janet Lloyd (Translation)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9781565847880
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-788-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Military vehicles, aircraft, ships; Non-fiction book; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater