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(0)Michael Burleigh
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxi. 650 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
British historian Burleigh (Blood Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism) delivers a long, riveting account of the awful atrocities of WWII and the perverted reasoning behind them. Burleigh explains that Communist, Nazi, Fascist, and Japanese systems claimed to be regimes of public virtue carrying out inexorable historical processes. Proclaiming that the only evil was obstructing this march to utopia, they discarded the rule of law and alternative...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
587 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing from new archival research, prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the many, largely forgotten, "hot" wars fought around the world.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 557 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of the leading historians of our time comes a brilliant and incisive work of history that examines the politics of religion and the religion of politics, from the catastrophe of the First World War to the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 529 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examining the ways in which politics and religion have influenced each other over the last two hundred years, Burleigh reveals that throughout history the two realms have interacted in complex and sometimes lethal ways--just as they still do today. The overall effect was a widespread increase in secularism and a demystification of the power of politics. Burleigh encompasses the philosophies of the Enlightenment, as well as the pseudo-religious aspects...