audiobook USS Antietam by From Turner in History

Description

In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt’s seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism; innumerable historians have detailed the history of the Nazi years. Now; in a brilliant synthesis of this work; Enzo Traverso situates the extermination camps as the final; terrible moment in European modernity’s industrialization of killing and dehumanization of death. Traverso upends the conventional presentation of the Holocaust as an inexplicable anomaly; navigating an excess of antecedents both technical and cultural. Deftly tracing a complex lineage—the guillotine and machine gun; the prison and assembly line; as well as widespread ideologies of racial supremacy and colonial expansion—Traverso reveals that the ideas that coalesced at Auschwitz came from Europe’s mainstream and not its margins.