Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

Author:   Housum Professor of History Timothy Snyder (Yale University) ,  Mark Bramhall
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Publication Date:   08 September 2015
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Author:   Housum Professor of History Timothy Snyder (Yale University) ,  Mark Bramhall
Publisher:   Books on Tape
Imprint:   Books on Tape
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 16.80cm
Weight:   0.476kg
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9781101926079


ISBN 10:   1101926074
Publication Date:   08 September 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
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Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future. -- Ian Kershaw Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew. -- Deborah Lipstadt From the Hardcover edition.


Praise for Black Earth Clear-eyed . . . Arresting . . . An unorthodox and provocative account . . . Snyder is admirably relentless. The New Yorker Black Earth is mesmerizing . . . Remarkable . . . Gripping . . . Disturbingly vivid . . . Mr. Snyder is sometimes mordant, often shocked, always probing. The Wall Street Journal A very fine book . . . Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust conditions our society today shares . . . He certainly couldn t be more right about our world. The New Republic An unflinching look at the Holocaust . . . Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present. The New York Times Snyder s historical account has a vital contemporary lesson . . . It s a testament to his intellectual and moral resources that he can so deeply contemplate this horrific past in ways that strengthen his commitment to building a future based on law, rights, and citizenship. The Washington Post Black Earth elucidates human catastrophe in regions with which a Western audience needs to become familiar. The New York Times Book Review Timothy Snyder is now our most distinguished historian of evil. Black Earth casts new light on old darkness. It demonstrates once and for allthat the destruction of the Jews was premised on the destruction of states and the institutions of politics. I know of no other historicalwork on the Holocaust that is so deeply alarmed byits repercussionsfor the human future. This is a haunted and haunting book erudite, provocative, and unforgettable. Leon Wieseltier In this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitler's genocide firmly in the politics and diplomacy of 1930s Europe. Black Earth is required reading for anyone who cares about this difficult period of history. Anne Applebaum Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future. Ian Kershaw Part history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and challenging reinterpretation. Henry Kissinger Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew. Deborah Lipstadt Timothy Snyder s Black Earth is not only a powerful exposure of the horrors of the Holocaust but also a compelling dissection of the Holocaust s continuing threat. Zbigniew Brzezinski Timothy Snyder argues, eloquently and convincingly, that the world is still susceptible to the inhuman impulses that brought about the Final Solution. This book should be read as admonition by presidents, prime ministers, and in particular by anyone who believes that the past is somehow behind us. Jeffrey Goldberg From the Hardcover edition.


A New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Editors' Choice Praise for Black Earth Clear-eyed . . . Arresting . . . An unorthodox and provocative account . . . Snyder is admirably relentless. The New Yorker Black Earth is mesmerizing . . . Remarkable . . . Gripping . . . Disturbingly vivid . . . Mr. Snyder is sometimes mordant, often shocked, always probing. The Wall Street Journal Revelatory . . . Evocative . . . Most relevant today. The Atlantic A very fine book . . . Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust conditions our society today shares . . . He certainly couldn t be more right about our world. The New Republic An unflinching look at the Holocaust . . . Mr. Snyder is a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present. The New York Times Snyder s historical account has a vital contemporary lesson . . . It s a testament to his intellectual and moral resources that he can so deeply contemplate this horrific past in ways that strengthen his commitment to building a future based on law, rights, and citizenship. The Washington Post Black Earth elucidates human catastrophe in regions with which a Western audience needs to become familiar. The New York Times Book Review In Black Earth, a book of the greatest importance, Snyder now forces us to look afresh at these monumental crimes. Written with searing intellectual honesty, his new study goes much deeper than Bloodlands in its analysis, showing how the two regimes fed off each other. Antony Beevor, The Sunday Times Snyder writes elegant, lucid, powerful prose. He has read widely in literatures not widely read. In Black Earth he has synthesized previous work into a narrative of the Holocaust that recasts the familiar in unfamiliar terms that challenge the thinking of experts and non-experts alike. Haaretz No matter how many histories, biographies, and memoirs you may have already read, Black Earth will compel you to see the Holocaust in a wholly new and revelatory light. The Jewish Journal Timothy Snyder is now our most distinguished historian of evil. Black Earth casts new light on old darkness. It demonstrates once and for allthat the destruction of the Jews was premised on the destruction of states and the institutions of politics. I know of no other historicalwork on the Holocaust that is so deeply alarmed byits repercussionsfor the human future. This is a haunted and haunting book erudite, provocative, and unforgettable. Leon Wieseltier In this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitler's genocide firmly in the politics and diplomacy of 1930s Europe. Black Earth is required reading for anyone who cares about this difficult period of history. Anne Applebaum Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future. Ian Kershaw Part history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and challenging reinterpretation. Henry Kissinger Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew. Deborah Lipstadt Timothy Snyder s Black Earth is not only a powerful exposure of the horrors of the Holocaust but also a compelling dissection of the Holocaust s continuing threat. Zbigniew Brzezinski Timothy Snyder argues, eloquently and convincingly, that the world is still susceptible to the inhuman impulses that brought about the Final Solution. This book should be read as admonition by presidents, prime ministers, and in particular by anyone who believes that the past is somehow behind us. Jeffrey Goldberg From the Hardcover edition.


Timothy Snyder is now our most distinguished historian of evil. Black Earth casts new light on old darkness. It demonstrates once and for all that the destruction of the Jews was premised on the destruction of states and the institutions of politics. I know of no other historical work on the Holocaust that is so deeply alarmed by its repercussions for the human future. This is a haunted and haunting book--erudite, provocative, and unforgettable. -- Leon Wieseltier In this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitler's genocide firmly in the politics and diplomacy of 1930s Europe. Black Earth is required reading for anyone who cares about this difficult period of history. -- Anne Applebaum Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to rethink our own future. -- Ian Kershaw Part history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and challenging reinterpretation. -- Henry Kissinger Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were sure we already knew. -- Deborah Lipstadt Timothy Snyder's Black Earth is not only a powerful exposure of the horrors of the Holocaust but also a compelling dissection of the Holocaust's continuing threat. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski Timothy Snyder argues, eloquently and convincingly, that the world is still susceptible to the inhuman impulses that brought about the Final Solution. This book should be read as admonition by presidents, prime ministers, and in particular by anyone who believes that the past is somehow behind us. -- Jeffrey Goldberg From the Hardcover edition.


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Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. Snyder is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement and a former contributing editor at The New Republic. He is a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, serves as the faculty advisor for the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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