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Obras por William Sheridan Allen

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Nome canónico
Allen, William Sheridan
Nome legal
Allen, William Sheridan
Outros nomes
Allen, William S.
Data de nascimento
1932-10-05
Data de falecimento
2013-03-14
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Local de falecimento
Buffalo, New York, USA
Educação
University of Michigan (1955)
Free University of Berlin (1954)
University of Connecticut (1956)
University of Göttingen (1957)
University of Minnesota (1962)
Ocupações
historian
university professor
Organizações
American Historical Association
Congress on Racial Equality
American Civil Liberties Union
American Association of University Professors
University of Buffalo

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William Sheridan Allen was born in Evanston, Illinois. He graduated from Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, and earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan, a master’s in history from the University of Connecticut, and his doctorate in history from the University of Minnesota. He also studied at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Göttingen. In the early 1950s, he went to a small, predominantly Protestant middle-class town in Hanover, Germany, to research its history during the years between World War I and World War II. From this work he produced his first book, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922–1945 (1965). He conducted an exhaustive study of the local newspapers and periodicals, town budgets, crime statistics, and court cases, among other sources. With his analysis, he debunked the idea that Hitler and the Nazi regime came to power through violence. Instead, he explained, the Nazis "seized" power through democratic tactics that won localized support by promising Germans to "get their country back to greatness." The book was extremely influential and became a classic work used as a textbook in college German and European history courses. Allen taught at several universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Missouri and Wayne State University, before joining the history faculty at the University of Buffalo, where he taught for more than 30 years. He served as chairman of the history department and often lectured in area high schools about the Holocaust.

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This was one of several books read in a college level European History course. It was, and remains, an eye-opener. Few books on the war will
show you how the Nazi machine took over Germany. The author goes into
the daily fabric of the people as you watch social and civic groups move
into the Nazi mindset. A well written and insightful book.
 
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Steve_Walker | 2 outras críticas | Sep 13, 2020 |
3229. The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945 Revised Edition, by William Sheridan Allen (read 14 Aug 1999) This is a closely researched history of Northeim, a town in Hanover of about 10,000 people in 1930, concerning the years from 1922 to 1945. The book attempts to figure out why the Nazis won there. I did not find the book dramatic or excessively interesting.
½
 
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Schmerguls | 2 outras críticas | Jun 19, 2007 |

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Obras
3
Membros
598
Popularidade
#42,016
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
3
ISBN
16
Línguas
2

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