Kantorowicz: Stories of a Historian

by Alain Boureau

Ernst Kantorowicz was a complex figure whose long incident-filled life seemed to embody many of the contradictions of the twentieth century. A Jew from a disputed area between Germany and Poland who fought on the German side in World War I, he first achieved academic success with Frederick II (1927), a work whose language, in Gabrielle Spiegel's words, often came perilously close to that of the Nazi party in its desire to see a reconstituted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801866235
• ISBN13: 9780801866234
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.8"