Thomas Childers
Biographic Data
| ID | 971508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Childers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Childers |
| SIGNATURE | CHILDERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | California University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Soldier from the War Returning
One of our great national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in World War II. The Greatest Generation, we're told, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with rebuilding their lives. Here, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families--including his own--with a decade's worth of research to paint an entirely new…
Facilis descensus averni est ”
Contemplating with dread the slide toward war between Japan and the United States in the autumn of 1941, Joseph Grew, the American ambassador to Tokyo, noted gloomily in his diary: “ Facilis descensus averni est ”—the descent into Hell is easy. Events in Europe and China had already given eloquent testimony to that grim axiom, confirming all too clearly that among the first casualties of war are peacetime notions of morality. Grew's foreboding wa…
Reevaluating the Third Reich
Reevaluating the Third Reich
Reevaluating the Third Reich
The Social Language of Politics in Germany
Voters and Violence
Political Sociology and the “Linguistic Turn”
As we enter a new decade, it is virtually impossible to pick up a historical journal, browse through a book store, or attend a scholarly conference without confronting the growing presence of “language” or “discourse” in historical inquiry. Explications of, disputes within, and challenges to various literary and linguistic theories, especially poststructuralist approaches, ring out from virtually every corner of scholarly endeavor. Yet, while our…
The Formation of the Nazi Constituency, 1919-1933
Big Business, Weimar Democracy, and Nazism
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The Nazi Voter
The Nazi Voter
Who, Indeed, Did Vote for Hitler
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Who Voted for Hitler?Richard F. Hamilton
Die Bürde der Macht
The Social Bases of the National Socialist Vote
gains on the national scene, the question of 'who voted for Hitler?' has dominated the study of voting behaviour in the Weimar Republic. The imposing mass of scholarly literature generated by this issue has produced a widely accepted core of common knowledge cocerning the social composition of the National Socialist constituency. From Theodor Geiger to Seymour Martin Lipset1 virtually all analysts have concluded that German fascism was a middle-c…
The Social Bases of the National Socialist Vote
gains on the national scene, the question of 'who voted for Hitler?' has dominated the study of voting behaviour in the Weimar Republic. The imposing mass of scholarly literature generated by this issue has produced a widely accepted core of common knowledge cocerning the social composition of the National Socialist constituency. From Theodor Geiger to Seymour Martin Lipset1 virtually all analysts have concluded that German fascism was a middle-c…
Facilis descensus averni est ”
Contemplating with dread the slide toward war between Japan and the United States in the autumn of 1941, Joseph Grew, the American ambassador to Tokyo, noted gloomily in his diary: “ Facilis descensus averni est ”—the descent into Hell is easy. Events in Europe and China had already given eloquent testimony to that grim axiom, confirming all too clearly that among the first casualties of war are peacetime notions of morality. Grew's foreboding wa…
Political Sociology and the “Linguistic Turn”
As we enter a new decade, it is virtually impossible to pick up a historical journal, browse through a book store, or attend a scholarly conference without confronting the growing presence of “language” or “discourse” in historical inquiry. Explications of, disputes within, and challenges to various literary and linguistic theories, especially poststructuralist approaches, ring out from virtually every corner of scholarly endeavor. Yet, while our…
Who, Indeed, Did Vote for Hitler
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Social Bases of the National Socialist Vote
gains on the national scene, the question of 'who voted for Hitler?' has dominated the study of voting behaviour in the Weimar Republic. The imposing mass of scholarly literature generated by this issue has produced a widely accepted core of common knowledge cocerning the social composition of the National Socialist constituency. From Theodor Geiger to Seymour Martin Lipset1 virtually all analysts have concluded that German fascism was a middle-c…
Die Bürde der Macht
Who, Indeed, Did Vote for Hitler
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who Voted for Hitler?Richard F. Hamilton
The Nazi Voter
The Nazi Voter
The Formation of the Nazi Constituency, 1919-1933
Big Business, Weimar Democracy, and Nazism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Sociology and the “Linguistic Turn”
As we enter a new decade, it is virtually impossible to pick up a historical journal, browse through a book store, or attend a scholarly conference without confronting the growing presence of “language” or “discourse” in historical inquiry. Explications of, disputes within, and challenges to various literary and linguistic theories, especially poststructuralist approaches, ring out from virtually every corner of scholarly endeavor. Yet, while our…
The Social Language of Politics in Germany
Voters and Violence
Reevaluating the Third Reich
Reevaluating the Third Reich
Reevaluating the Third Reich
Facilis descensus averni est ”
Contemplating with dread the slide toward war between Japan and the United States in the autumn of 1941, Joseph Grew, the American ambassador to Tokyo, noted gloomily in his diary: “ Facilis descensus averni est ”—the descent into Hell is easy. Events in Europe and China had already given eloquent testimony to that grim axiom, confirming all too clearly that among the first casualties of war are peacetime notions of morality. Grew's foreboding wa…
Soldier from the War Returning
One of our great national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in World War II. The Greatest Generation, we're told, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They quickly and cheerfully went on with rebuilding their lives. Here, historian Thomas Childers shatters that myth. He interweaves the intimate story of three families--including his own--with a decade's worth of research to paint an entirely new…
Political science (15 works) · European history and politics (11 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · German (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Economic history (5 works)