George L Mosse: 4 books

At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of some 13 million soldiers--more than twice the number killed in all the major wars from 1790 to 1914....

What does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to be manly? How has our notion of masculinity changed over the years? In this book, noted historian George L. Mosse provides the first historical account of the masculine stereotype in modern Western culture, tracing the evolution of the idea of manliness...

Come è stato possibile che, nel cuore della vecchia Europa, persone «perbene», intelligenti e istruite abbiano aderito in massa alla causa del nazismo, abbracciandone i valori? Molti vedono nell’ideologia nazionalsocialista il prodotto di poche menti squilibrate, o una mera costruzione propagandistica...

This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'. It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic...