Wolfgang Schivelbusch Three new deals

reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939

Today FDR's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to the economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural historian Schivelbusch investigates their shared elements to offer an explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian systems. Returning to the Depression, he traces the emergence of a new type of populist and paternalist state: bolstered by mass propaganda,...

Engels | 242 pagina's | Metropolitan Books, New York | 2006

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