Karl Loewenstein

Hitler's Germany provides a comprehensive narrative history of Nazi Germany and sets it in the wider context of nineteenth- and twentieth- century German history. Stackelberg analyses how it was possible that a national culture of such creativity and achievement could generate such barbarism and destructiveness. The book includes discussion on: the relationship of Nazism to conservatism, socialism, liberalism, fascism and communism the weakness of the Weimar democracy the causes and foundations of the emergence and triumph of Nazism the consolidation of Nazi power across a diverse society and in every day life in Hitler's Germany the sporadic revival of the radical right up to the present the afterlife of Nazism in German historical memory* the Holocaust.

Fully revised and up-dated, this new edition of Simon James' comprehensive and accessible text continues to provide an excellent insight into this central topic of British politics. It draws on the wealth of new material that has become available in recent years to shed light on the mechanisms, structure and realities of the Cabinet system in Britain from 1945 to the present. Its coverage includes: ministers and their departments collective decision-making the role of the Prime Minister the strengths and weaknesses of the Cabinet system * the future of the Cabinet system.