George Mosse

A revised and updated edition of this established cultural history examines the interplay between eighteenth-century rationalism and nineteenth-century romanticism as they meshed and modified one another to shape the prominent trends of the twentieth century.A new chapter, The Changing Pace of Life," skillfully …

George L. Mosse, a Wisconsin historian and author of The Crisis of German Ideology among other works, has written a highly detailed survey of the intellectual roots and development of the racist ideology from the 18th century to the present. Professor Mosse sees the story of racism ""not as the history of an …