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A Most Dangerous Book

A Most Dangerous Book

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The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as "a bible," nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired-and polarized-readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2011-05-02
Publication Date:
2011-05-02
Publisher:
Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393062651
ISBN13:
9780393062656
Weight:
474 g
Height:
149 cm
Width:
219 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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