{"product_id":"germania-and-agricola-alfred-j-church-9781543169300","title":"Germania and Agricola","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescribed by two prominent twentieth century leftist academics as one of the \"most dangerous books ever written,\" Roman historian Tacitus's 98 AD work Germania is credited with almost single-handedly creating modern German nationalism after the manuscript's rediscovery in 1462.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally titled \"On the Origin and Situation of the Germanic Peoples\" (\u003ci\u003eDe Origine et situ Germanorum\u003c\/i\u003e), it provides a vivid survey of the physical, cultural, and behavioral characteristics of the German people in what the Romans called Germania Magna-\"Greater Germany\"-that area east of the Rhine River.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people, and then moves on to detailed descriptions of the individual tribes all the way up to the Baltic Sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis includes Tacitus's famous description of the Germans as a \"pure and unmixed race\" with Nordic racial characteristics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt then describes the Germanic systems of government, religion, the egalitarian status of women in German society, and even a form of folk assembly, or parliament, at which important decisions were made by common vote and consensus, among many other things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll copies of Germania were lost during the Middle Ages and the work was forgotten until a single manuscript was rediscovered. At that time, most of Germany was known as the Holy Roman Empire, and the word \"Germani\" was almost never used. The book's rediscovery and distribution directly led to the widespread use of that word once again, and it was first used in a nationalist sense in 1471 during a crusade against the invading Turks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1956, Jewish historian Arnaldo Momigliano, professor at University College, London, described Germania as \"among the most dangerous books ever written,\" and in 2008, professor Christopher Krebs, assistant professor of Classics at Harvard produced a separate book on the topic called \u003ci\u003eA Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, \u003c\/i\u003e in which he claimed that all top Nazis were familiar with the work, including racial scientist Hans F.K. Gunther.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second work in this book, Agricola, originally titled \"On the life and character of Julius Agricola\" (\u003ci\u003eDe vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae\u003c\/i\u003e) is a biographical work which tells the story of the author's father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, one of the most prominent Roman generals who took part in the final conquest of Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt includes many valuable comments about the racial characteristics of the pre-Roman British people and society, as well as fascinating details of the conquest of Britain and of how Agricola served as governor of the new province.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfred J. Church, Publius Cornelius Tacitus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1543169309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781543169300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Alfred J. Church","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938343125247,"sku":"9781543169300","price":11.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_20ed5ab6-80e1-4124-9345-d24b0a2e03d1.jpg?v=1681435136","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/germania-and-agricola-alfred-j-church-9781543169300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}