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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich Hardcover - 2011

by Christopher B. Krebs

Krebs tells the riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.


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The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height of the Roman Empire, he could not have foreseen that the Nazis would extol it as a bible, nor that Heinrich Himmler, the engineer of the Holocaust, would vow to resurrect Germany on its grounds. But the Germania inspired--and polarized--readers long before the rise of the Third Reich. In this elegant and captivating history, Christopher B. Krebs, a professor of classics at Harvard University, traces the wide-ranging influence of the Germania over a five-hundred-year span, showing us how an ancient text rose to take its place among the most dangerous books in the world.

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  • Title A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
  • Author Christopher B. Krebs
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 2011-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780393062656 / 0393062651
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 6.11 x 1.04 in (20.93 x 15.52 x 2.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Tacitus, Cornelius, Group identity - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010049425
  • Dewey Decimal Code 936.302
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