Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rightsâa transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed toget...
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era of unmatched creativity in the twentieth centuryâone whose influence and inspiration still resonate today. Eric Weitz has written...
Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored...
Eric Weitz presents a social and political history of German communism from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1990. In the first book in English or in German to explore this entire...