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Ian Kershaw
Personality and Power : Builders and Destroyers...

Ian Kershaw
Personality and Power : Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

2022 | Nakladatelství The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt …for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished. Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage or with a more national impact . What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles, from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev, and Thatcher to Kohl, Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power. One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instru…ments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished. Ian Kershaw's new book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage or with a more national impact . What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end? In a contrasting group of profiles, from Churchill to de Gaulle, Adenauer to Gorbachev, and Thatcher to Kohl, Kershaw uses his exceptional skills to think through how other, strikingly different figures wielded power.

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Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Pevná
Počet stran:	490
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	0241532418
ISBN:	9780241532416
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	6. 7. 2025 0:30
Číslo položky:	1292757

O autorovi

Ian Kershaw

Ian Kershaw je anglický historik, odborník na téma nacismu, autor ceněné dvoudílné biografie Adolfa Hitlera. Vystudoval historii na liverpoolské a oxfordské univerzitě. Na Manchesterské univerzitě byl odborným asistentem středověkých, později moderních dějin. V letech 1983–1984 byl hostujícím profesorem moderních dějin na univerzitě Ruhr v Bochumi, v západním Německu. Od roku 1987 do roku 1989 byl profesorem moderních dějin na univerzitě v Nottinghamu, a od roku 1989 na Sheffieldské univerzitě. Je členem Britské akademie, Královské historické společnosti, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin a Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung v Bonnu. Úzce spolupracuje s BBC, byl odborným konzultantem řady jejích historických dokumentárních seriálů na téma nacismu, mimo jiné i The Nazis: A Warning from History, který získal cenu BAFTA.

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