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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Used book which has been read but is still in great condition. Pages are free from notes. Name in front. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> The advent of Nazism in the 1920s and 1930s shocked many Europeans who believed that World War I had been fought to make the “world safe for democracy.” Indeed. Nazism was only one although the most important of a number of similar-looking fascist movements in Europe between World War I and World War II. While Nazism like the others owed much to the impact of World War I. it needs also to be viewed in the context of developments in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. EUROPE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Mans Europeans perceived the nineteenth century as an age of progress hased on the growth of rationalism secularism and materialism. One English social philosopher claimed that progress was not an “accident but a neces which would enable humans to “become perfect B the end of the teenth century however there were voices who challenged these opti casumptions. They spoke of human irrationality and the need for vie ence to she human problems. Nazism would later draw heavily upon this antirasional mood and reject the rationalist and materialist views of progress The major ideas that dominated European political life in the nineteenth sury seemed to support the notion of progres Liberalism professed belief