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Widespread anti-Jewish pogroms accompanied the rebirth of Polish
statehood out of World War I and Polish-Soviet War. William W.
Hagen offers the pogroms' first scholarly account, revealing how
they served as brutal stagings by ordinary people of scenarios
dramatizing popular anti-Jewish fears and resentments. While
scholarship on modern anti-Semitism has stressed its ideological
inspiration ('print anti-Semitism'), this study shows that
anti-Jewish violence by perpetrators among civilians and soldiers
expressed magic-infused anxieties and longings for redemption from
present threats and suffering ('folk anti-Semitism'). Illustrated
with contemporary photographs and constructed from extensive, newly
discovered archival sources from three continents, this is an
innovative work in east European history. Using extensive
first-person testimonies, it reveals gaps - but also
correspondences - between popular attitudes and those of the
political elite. The pogroms raged against the conscious will of
new Poland's governors whilst Christians high and low sometimes
sought, even successfully, to block them.
This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide
perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal
identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society,
culture, and political power, contrasting German with western
patterns. Rather than treating the Germans as a collective whole
whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book
presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire; the
nineteenth century; the 1914 1945 era of war, dictatorship, and
genocide; and the Cold War and post Cold War eras since 1945 as
successive worlds of German life, thought, and mentality. The book
sets forth the differences between them, even as it traces paths
leading from one to the other. This book's Germany is polycentric
and multicultural, including the multi-national Austrian Habsburg
Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism
offers a conceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The
book's numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and
styles of life, which often contrast with western ideas of
Germany."
This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide
perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal
identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society,
culture, and political power, contrasting German with western
patterns. Rather than treating the Germans as a collective whole
whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book
presents the pre-modern era of the Holy Roman Empire; the
nineteenth century; the 1914 1945 era of war, dictatorship, and
genocide; and the Cold War and post Cold War eras since 1945 as
successive worlds of German life, thought, and mentality. The book
sets forth the differences between them, even as it traces paths
leading from one to the other. This book's Germany is polycentric
and multicultural, including the multi-national Austrian Habsburg
Empire and the German Jews. Its approach to National Socialism
offers a conceptually new understanding of the Holocaust. The
book's numerous illustrations reveal German self-presentations and
styles of life, which often contrast with western ideas of
Germany."
This book gives voice, in unusual depth and immediacy, to ordinary
villagers and landlords (Junkers) in the Prussian-German
countryside, from the late Middle Ages to the nineteenth century.
The trials and fortunes of everyday life come into view - in the
family, the workplace, in the private lives of both men and women,
in courtroom and jailhouse, and under the gaze of the rising
Prussian monarchy's officials and army officers. What emerges is a
many-dimensioned, long-term study of a rural society, inviting
comparisons on a world-historical level. The book also puts to a
test the possibilities of empirical historical knowledge at the
microhistorical or 'grass-roots' level. But it also
reconceptualizes, on the scale of Prussian-German and European
history, the rise of agrarian capitalism, challenging views
widespread in the economic history literature on the common
people's working standards, and including massive documentation on
women's condition, rights and social roles.
This book is about ordinary villagers and landlords (Junkers) in the Prussian-German countryside, from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century. It is distinguished by its concentration on first-person testimony, and focus on the lives and fortunes of ordinary people during the era of the rise of capitalism and the modern state. The book is a major contribution to fundamental debates in German history on the origins of modern political authoritarianism.
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