Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
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Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
By (Author) James Q. Whitman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
12th November 2018
United States
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General
Non Fiction
Central / national / federal government policies
Far-right political ideologies and movements
342.430873
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232
Width 133mm, Height 203mm
Description
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-Jewis
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Author Bio
James Q. Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His books include Harsh Justice, The Origins of Reasonable Doubt, and The Verdict of Battle.
