UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO/FALL SEMESTER
2016
HISTORY 300/012: HISTORY OF FASCISM
Professor E. A. Sanabria
Book Presentation/Book Review
As you know your grade is
based on your performance on our two exams (the final and the midterm); a
primary source-based paper on Fascist Italy and one based on Nazi Germany
(details soon to come); and an oral presentation to the class on a historical
monograph of your choosing that you will also review for a third paper to me. Here
are some notes on that particular assignment.
In order to demonstrate your
ability to read a secondary text critically and analytically, you are to select
ONE of the following books on this list and prepare a review of the work due on
the day you present the book and the author’s arguments, use of sources, and
evaluate the book to the class. You may
feel somewhat unqualified to complete such an assignment because, after all,
the author of the book is the “professional historian.” However, even though
you can’t write from the same level of experience and knowledge as the author,
you can write an effective reviewer of what the author wrote and how
effectively he proved the point or theses of his book. Your review should begin
with a careful, active, and critical reading in which you keep the author’s
thesis in mind, noting the evidence she uses to support that thesis, asking the
a number of important evaluative questions (Who is the author? Where did they
earn their credentials? Who published the book? Is it a scholarly press or a
press usually geared for a broader readership? When was the text written? Do
the footnotes/endnotes and bibliography reference other important works on the
same topic? Does the author agree or
disagree with others who have written on the subject? What type of sources does
the author use to build her book? Might
there be primary source material that you know of that the author doesn’t
consult? Does the author build his argument on any unsubstantiated
assumptions?).
A book review should not
simply summarize the content of a book nor merely report your reaction to the
book (i.e., this book was boring.”). Rather, when writing a review, you not
only report on the content of the book and your response to it but you also its
strengths and weaknesses, as these are behind your positive or negative
assessment. So, for example, it is not
enough to say “this book is not very good”; you need to explain or justify your
reaction through an analysis of the book.
Did you find the book unconvincing because the author did not use enough
primary evidence? Did you disagree with
the book’s underlying assumptions? Did
the book have a well-written and original thesis supported by convincing
evidence?
There is no one correct way
to structure a review, but here is one possible approach: 1) Summarize the book and relate the author’s
main point or thesis; 2) describe the author’s viewpoint and purpose for
writing, including noting any aspects of the author’s background that are
important for understanding the book; 3) note the most important evidence the author
presents to support his/her thesis; 4) evaluate the author’s use of evidence;
5) compare this text with other books or articles the author mentions, usually
in the introduction or in early chapters, that are also on this same subject;
and 6) conclude with a final evaluation of the book, perhaps suggesting who
might find this book useful and why.
This paper is due on the day
of your presentation (we will have sign ups for
presentations after Fall Break and will be on a first come first served status
via email); late papers will be docked 1/3 of a letter grade for every day they
are late. The paper should be 5-6 pages
double spaced. Any of the books below
should work, and ideally, each student will write on one specific book. The book you choose will also be the subject
of your student presentation. In your presentation, briefly summarize the authors’
argument, describe her use of sources, identify your favorite part of the book
(or that you found most convincing/effective), identify a problem with the book
(if any), and then evaluate the book overall: tell your classmates if the book
you chose is a good study for students in a History of fascism course, and why
or why not.
Carroll, D. French
Literary Fascism.
Curtis, M. Three against
the
Doty, C. S. From Cultural Rebellion to
Counterrevolution: The Politics of Maurice Barrès.
Gordon, B. M. Collaboration
in
Halls, W. D. The Youth of
Novick, P. The Resistance versus
Paxton, R. O.
Roth, J. J. The Cult of violence: Sorel and the Sorelians.
Rousso, H. The
Soucy, R. Fascism in
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Intellectual: Drieu
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Fascism: The First Wave, 1924-1933.
Stearns, Peter. Revolutionary
Syndicalism and French Labor.
Sternhell, Zeev. Neither
Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in
Sutton, W. Nationalism, Positivism, and Catholicism: The Politics of Charles Maurras
and French Catholics, 1890-1914.
Sweets, J. F. Choices in
Tannenbaum, Edward R. The
Action Française:
Die-Hard Reactionaries in Twentieth Century
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the Holocaust.
Allen, William Sheridan. The
Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of
a Single German Town, 1922-1945.
Bachrach, Susan and Steven Luckert. State
of
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Violence and the Rise of Nazism: The
Storm Troopers in
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under Hitler: Politics and the Physics
Community in the Third Reich.
Bracker, K. D. The
German Dictatorship.
Bramstead, E. K., Goebbels
and National Socialist Propaganda, 1925-1945.
Branwell, A. Blood and
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and SD.
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Burden, H. The
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Burrin, P. Hilter and the Jews.
Carr, W. Hitler: A Study in Personality.
Ceicel, R. The Myth of
the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and
Nazi Ideology.
Ceplair, L. Under the
Shadow of War: Fascism, Anti-Fascism and
Marxists, 1918-1939.
Combs, W. L., The Voice of the SS: A History of the SS Journal “Das Schwarze Corps.”
Corni, G. Hitler and the Peasants, 1930-1939.
Crew, D. Nazism
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Davidson, E. The
Making of Adolf Hitler.
Eley, G. From
Unification to Nazism.
Evans, R. J. Rethinking
German History: Nineteenth Century
Feldman, G. D. The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the
German Inflation, 1914-1924.
Fest, J. The
Faces of the Third Reich.
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Fischer, C. The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism.
Fischer, F. From Kaiserreich to Third Reich.
Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Oxford,
2002.
--------. The
Gestapo and German Society.
Glaser, H. The Cultural Roots of National
Socialism.
Goodrick-Clarke, N. The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on
Nazi Ideology.
Gordon, H. J. Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch. Princeton, NJ, 1984.
Grunberger, R. A Social
History of the Third Reich.
Hale, O. J. The Captive Press in the Third Reich.
Hamilton, R. F. Who Voted for Hitler?
Hoffman, P. The
History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945.
--------. German
Resistance to Hitler.
Homze, E. L. Foreign Labor in Nazi
Jones, L. E., German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the
Kater, M. H., The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders,
1919-1945.
--------. Doctors
under Hitler.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. Profiles in Power Series.
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“Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the
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Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and
Perspectives of Interpretation.
Koch, H. W. The Hitler Youth.
--------. In the
Name of the Volk: Political Justice in Hlter’s Germany.
Koehl, R. The Black
Corps: The Structure and Power Struggle
of the Nazi SS.
Koonz, C. The Nazi Conscience. Cambridge, MA,
2005.
Koshar, Rudy. Social Life, Local Politics and Nazism:
Macrakis, K. Surviving the Swastika: Scientific Research in Nazi
Mason, T. W. Social Policy in the Third Reich.
McKale, D. M. The Nazi
Party Courts.
Mitchell, O.C. Hitler’s
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and Jews.
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Muhlberger, D. Hitler’s
Followers.
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Noakes, J. The Nazi Party in
Overy, Richard J. The Nazi Economic Recovery.
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Peukert, Detlev. Inside
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Pois, R. A. National
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Pool, J. and S. Pool. Who
Financed Hitler?
Pridham, G. Hitler’s Rise to Power: The History of the NSDAP in Bavaria,
1923-1933.
Proctor, R. W. Racial
Hygiene: Medicine Under
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Pulzer, P. The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in
Rempel, G. Hitler’s Children: The HitlerYouth and
the SS.
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A Modern Millenarian Revolution.
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Hitler: The Search for the Origins of
his Evil. New York, 1999.
Rosenhaft, E. Beating the
Fascist? The German Communists and
Political Violence, 1929-1933.
Rummel, R. J. Democide: Nazi Genocide and Mass Murder.
Schoenbaum, D. Hitler’s
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Schramm, P. E. Hitler:
The Man and the Military Leader.
Sklar, D. Gods and Beasts: The Nazis and the Occult.
Smith, B. Adolf
Hitler: His Family, Childhood, and Youth.
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Himmler: A Nazi in the Making,
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Smith, B. F. The Road to
Smith, W. D. The Intellectual Origins of Nazi
Imperialism.
Snyder, L. L. Hitler’s Elite.
Stachura, P.D. Nazi outh in the
--------. Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism.
Steinberg, M. P. Sabers
and Brownshirts:
The German Students’ Path to National Socialism, 1918-1935.
Steinweis, A. S. Art,
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Tilton, T. Nazism, Neonazism,
and the Peasantry.
Toland, J. Adolf
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Welch, D. Propaganda
and the German Cinema, 1933-1945.
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Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda.
Wolff, R. J. Between Pope and Duce: Catholic Students in Fascist
Adamson, W. Avant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism. Cambridge, MA,
1993.
Bongiorno, J.W. Fascist
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--------. Italian
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Dombrowski, R. Mussolini: Twilight and Fall.
Fornari, H. Mussolini’s Gadfly: Roberto Farinacci.
Forsyth, D. J. The Crisis of Liberal
Gregor, A. J. Italian
Fascism and Developmental Dictatorship.
--------. Young
Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism.
Kirkpatrick, I. Mussolini: A Study in Power.
Knox, M. Mussolini
Unleashed, 1939-1941.
Koon, T. J. Believe,
Obey, Fight: Political Socialization of
Youth in Fascist
Lyttelton, A. The Seizure of Power: Fascism in
Mallett, Robert. Mussolini and the Origins of World War II,
1933-1940.
Mancini, E. The Struggle of the Italian Film Industry
during Fascism, 1930-1935.
Marrus, Michael R. The
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Pollard, J. F. The
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Sarti, Roland. Fascism and the Industrial Leadership in
Shorrock, W. I. From Ally to Enemy: The Enigma
of Fascist
Smith, D. M. Mussolini’s Roman Empire.
--------. Mussolini.
Snowden, F. The Fascist Revolution in
Tannenbaum, E. The
Fascist Experience: Society and Culture
in
Weinberg, L. B. After Mussolini: Italian Neo-Fascism and the Nature of
Fascism.
FASCISM, WAR, DIPLOMACY, WORLD WAR II, AND THE
HOLOCAUST
Baer, G. The Coming of the Italo-Ethiopian War.
Bankier, D. The Germans
and the Final Solution.
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Path to Genocide.
Brooker, P. The Faces of Fraternalism: Nazi
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Carroll, B. A. Design for Total War: Arms and Economics in the Third Reich.
Cassels, Adrian. Mussolini’s
Early Diplomacy.
Cooper, M. The
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Deist, W. The
Wehrmacht and German Rearmament.
Fleming, G. Hitler and
the Final Solution.
Friedlander, Saul. Prelude
to Downfall: Hitler and the United
States, 1939-1941.
--------. The
Years of Execution: Nazi
Gasman, D. The Scientific Origins of National
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Goldhagen, D. J. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New
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Hancock, E. National
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Harsch, D. German
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Kindermann, G. K. Hilter’s Defeat in
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FASCISM IN
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--------. Salazar’s
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WOMEN AND FASCISM
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FASCISM BEYOND
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Violence and Public Order: A study of
British Fascism.
Butnaru, I.C. The
Silent Holocaust:
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Hirschfeld, G. Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration.
Humphrewys, L. A., The Way of the
Heavenly Sword: The Japanese Army in the
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Jenks, W.
Karvonen, L. From White to Blue-and-Black: Finnish Fascism in the Inter-War Era.
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Lacko, M. Men of the
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--------. From
Prejudice to Persecution: A History of
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Redman, T. Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism.
Schmitz, D. F. The
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FASCISM, GENERAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES
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Modernism.
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Luebbert, G. M. Liberalism,
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Nolte, Ernst. Three
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Weber, Eugen. Varieties
of Fascism.
Documentation Style
Because this is an upper
division History course, I would be remiss if I didn’t require you to document
your sources using the style used by the historians’ profession: Chicago
Manual of Style footnotes or endnotes.
In general, the first citation of a book or article should be
complete. For example:
² Richard Herr, An Historical Essay on Modern
Subsequent references to that
book can look like this:
³Herr, 112.
Here’s an example of an
article citation:
¹Bruce
Any library reference section
should have a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style for you to consult, or
simply Google “Chicago Manual of Style” to find examples of
Because so many of our
primary sources come in edited collections, here’s an example of how to cite
from the
³Paul de Lagarde,
Deutsche Schriften,
in Fascism, Roger Griffin, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) 98-99.