The Wages Of Conquest

The Wages of Destruction

"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial Times An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision--ultimately hindered by Germany's limited resources and his own racial ideology--was to create a German super-state to dominate Europe and compete with what he saw as America's overwhelming power in a soon-to- be globalized world. The Wages of Destruction is a chilling work of originality and tremendous scholarship that set off debate in Germany and will fundamentally change the way in which history views the Second World War.

The Wages of Conquest

In The Wages of Conquest, Hugo Nutini provides a detailed description and analysis of the Mexican aristocracy from the Spanish Conquest to the present. The first part of the book gives an outline of Western social stratification from Greco-Roman times, through the Dark and Middle Ages, to the transition from estate to class after the French and American Revolutions. In the second part, Nutini explores the particular case of the Mexican aristocracy, identifying four main stages of development, which he analyzes in relation to the social, economic, and political evolution of the country. The emphasis is on the aristocracy, but the overall social structure receives significant attention as he explores the transformation of Mexico throughout colonial and republican times.

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