A noted cultural historian analyzes the common features among Fascism, Nazism, and the New Deal, examining the rise of a new type of state, supported by mass propaganda, led by a charismatic figure, and projecting power and stability to provide an explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian regimes. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

A noted cultural historian analyzes the common features among Fascism, Nazism, and the New Deal, examining the rise of a new type of state, supported by mass propaganda, led by a charismatic figure, and projecting power and stability to provide an explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian regimes. 30,000 first printing.

A tour of history focuses on the 'losers' and the myths they create to deal with the facts of their defeat, focusing on three seminal cases--the South after the Civil War, France following the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany after World War I. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Enemy may be another country, another person, a virus, or a social phenomenon. On the theme of The Enemy: an interview with Harvard science historian Peter Galison on cybernetics pioneer Norbert Weiner and his WWII-era research into anti-aircraft weaponry, which led directly to his theories of cybernetics; an interview with Wolfgang Schivelbusch, author of The Culture of Defeat, on the effects of crushing military loss on the collective imagination; Justine Kurland's photographs of the women combatants among the Tamil resistance fighters; John Peffer interviews a military expert in the use of propaganda; and Gianni Motti exhibits AP war photographs that were deemed too beautiful to sell...read more

Examines the interplay between new and revolutionary technology and nineteenth-century imagination

Provides the history and anecdotes about what people eat, drink, and inhale for pleasure