1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780737603321

Titolo

Die Rückkehr der "grossen Männer" [[electronic resource] ] : Staatsmänner im Krieg : ein deutsch-britischer Vergleich = Bringing personality back in : leadership and war : a British-German comparison, 1740-1945 / / herausgegeben von/edited by Brendan Simms und Karina Urbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2010

ISBN

1-282-88500-6

9786612885006

3-11-023295-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

Prinz-Albert-Studien ; ; Bd. 28 = Prince Albert studies ; ; v. 28

Classificazione

NK 7015

Altri autori (Persone)

SimmsBrendan

UrbachKarina

Disciplina

355.3/3041

Soggetti

Statesmen - Great Britain

Statesmen - Germany

Command of troops

Political leadership

Leadership - Great Britain - History

Leadership - Germany - History

Great Britain History, Military

Germany History, Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt/Contents -- Introduction -- Managing Several Fronts: The Seven Years' War -- Frederick the Great -- William Pitt the Elder, Strategic leadership at Home and Abroad during the Great War for the Empires (1756-1763) -- Reforming Leadership in War -- Reformstreben, Machtpolitik und Staatsführung im Krieg bei William Pitt dem Jüngeren -- Joseph II: Wars Intended, Prevented and Unexpected -- Civil Leadership in an Age of Popular Wars -- Gladstone: Morality in the Age of Popular Wars -- Bismarck: Ein Amateur in Uniform? -- Not Leaving it to the Generals: Leadership in World War I -- The Welsh



Wizard who won the War: David Lloyd George as War Leader -- Supreme Warlord: Kaiser Wilhelm II in Wartime -- Political Leadership in Total War -- Churchill: Flawed War Leader or Charismatic Visionary? -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume eminent historians compare German and British statesmen in war, from the Seven Years' War to World War II. The subjects of the biographical essays range from Frederick the Great and William Pitt the Elder, William Pitt the Younger and Joseph II, William Gladstone and Bismarck, David George and Wilhelm II, as well as Churchill and Hitler. Differences and similarities in the conduct of warfare and references to the present-day political situation are impressively presented. This collection thus provides important results to stimulate further research.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910447052103321

Autore

Johnson Hannah R. <1974->

Titolo

Blood libel : the ritual murder accusation at the limit of Jewish history / / Hannah R. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , c2012

ISBN

9786613807731

9780472902545

0472902547

9781282135154

1282135155

9780472028436

047202843X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Classificazione

HIS000000HIS022000

Disciplina

305.892/4009

Soggetti

Blood accusation - Europe - History

Jews - Persecutions - Europe - History

Antisemitism - Europe - History

Christianity and antisemitism

Judaism - Relations - Christianity

Christianity and other religions - Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The ethical dimensions of historical interpretation; the blood libel as limit case -- Thomas of Monmouth and the juridical discourse of ritual murder -- Moralization and method in Gavin Langmuir's history of antisemitism -- On being implicated: Israel Yuval and the new history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations -- Beyond implication: the Ariel Toaff affair and the question of complicity.

Sommario/riassunto

The ritual murder accusation is one of a series of myths that fall under the label blood libel, and describes the medieval legend that Jews require Christian blood for obscure religious purposes and are capable of committing murder to obtain it. This malicious myth continues to have an explosive afterlife in the public sphere, where Sarah Palin's 2011 gaffe is only the latest reminder of its power to excite controversy. Blood Libel is the first book-length study to analyze the recent historiography of the ritual murder accusation and to consider these debates in the context of intellectual and cultural history as well as methodology. Hannah R. Johnson articulates how ethics shapes methodological decisions in the study of the accusation and how questions about methodology, in turn, pose ethical problems of interpretation and understanding.