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Zusatztext This is an important book for understanding the changing faces of populism. Populism means, and meant, different things at different times. The book provides a multilayered approach that illuminates the perspectives and limits of the concept. The different authors analyze the national, regional and global variations of populism in the past and the present, providing key dimensions of the current debates about its more progressive, repressive and conservative formations in Europe, the United States and Latin America. Informationen zum Autor John Abromeit is Associate Professor in the Department of History at SUNY, Buffalo State, USA. Bridget María Chesterton is Associate Professor of History at Buffalo State, USA. She is the author of The Grandchildren of Solano López: Frontier and Nation in Paraguay, 1904-1936 (2013) and co-editor of Transformations of Populism in Europe and the Americas (2015). Vorwort Adopts a comparative historical approach to the study of populism in the modern world. Zusammenfassung The recent resurgence of populist movements and parties has led to a revival of scholarly interest in populism. This volume brings together well-established and new scholars to reassess the subject and combine historical and theoretical perspectives to shed new light on the history of the subject, as well as enriching contemporary discussions. In three parts, the contributors explore the history of populism in different regions, theories of populism and recent populist movements. Taken together, the contributions included in this book represent the most comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the topic to date. Questions addressed include:- What are the ‘essential’ characteristics of populism?- Is it important to distinguish between left- and right-wing populism?- How can the transformation of populist movements be explained?This is the most thorough and up to date comparative historical study of populism available. As such it will be of great value to anyone researching or studying the topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: New Historical Perspectives on Populism Section I: Right-Wing Populism and the Rise of National Socialism in Germany1. The Role of 'the People' and the Rise of the Nazis (Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)2. Conservatives – Radical Nationalists – Fascists: Calling the People into Politics, 1890-1930 (Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, USA)3. Germany’s Conservative Elites and the Problem of Political Mobilization in the Weimar Republic (Larry E. Jones, Canisius College, USA)Section II: Populism in the Balkans in the Twentieth Century4. Nationalism and Populism in the Balkans: The Case of Croatia (Mark Biondich, Carleton University, Ottawa)5. The People as a ‘Happening’: Constellations of Populism in Serbia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Nenad Stefanov, Humboldt University, Berlin)6. Alija Izetbegovic’s Islamic Declaration and Populism in Bosnia (York Norman, SUNY Buffalo State)Section III: Transformations of Populism in the U.S. in the 19th and 20th Centuries7. Richard Hofstadter’s Populist Problem – And Ours – And His Identity as a Jewish Intellectual (Gary Marotta (SUNY Buffalo State, USA)8. Anti-Populism and Democracy (Charles Postel, San Francisco State University, USA)9. Populism: Progressive and Reactionary (Ron Formisano, University of Kentucky, USA)Section IV: Populism in Latin America and the Caribbean 1920-1960. 10. Populist Discourses, Developmentalist Policies: Rethinking Mid-Twentieth Century Brazilian Politics (Joel Wolfe, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)11. Populism as an Identity: Four Propositions on Peronism (Matthew Karush, George Mason University, USA)12. Populism in the Circum-Caribbean, Especially Cuba and Jamaica (Gillian McGillivray, York University, Canada and Thomas Rogers, Emory Universit...
