Hitler's American model : the United States and the making of Nazi race law
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018].
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Book
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First paperback printing.
ISBN
9780691183060, 0691183066
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xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018].
Edition
First paperback printing.
Language
English
ISBN
9780691183060, 0691183066

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"With a new preface by the author"--Title page.
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"Second printing and first paperback printing, 2018"--Ttitle page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-200) and index.
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"Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection between American and German racial repression, Whitman demonstrates that the Nazis took a real, sustained, significant, and revealing interest in American race policies. As Whitman shows, the Nuremberg Laws were crafted in an atmosphere of considerable attention to the precedents American race laws had to offer. German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the early 1930s, and the most radical Nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. But while Jim Crow segregation was one aspect of American law that appealed to Nazi radicals, it was not the most consequential one. Rather, both American citizenship and anti-miscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws-- the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Whitman looks at the ultimate, ugly irony that when Nazis rejected American practices, it was sometimes not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh. Indelibly linking American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany, Hitler's American Model upends understandings of America's influence on racist practices in the wider world."--,Back cover.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Whitman, J. Q. (2018). Hitler's American model: the United States and the making of Nazi race law (First paperback printing.). Princeton University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Whitman, James Q., 1957-. 2018. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. Princeton University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Whitman, James Q., 1957-. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law Princeton University Press, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Whitman, James Q. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law First paperback printing., Princeton University Press, 2018.

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