Timothy Mason

Timothy Wright Mason (1940–1990) was an English Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. He was one of the founders of the History Workshop Journal and specialised in the social history of the Third Reich. He argued for the "primacy of politics," i.e., that the Nazi government was "increasingly independent of the influence of the [German] economic ruling classes," and believed the Second World War had been triggered by an economic crisis inside Germany.

BirthDate
2 March 1940
Birth date
2 March 1940
BirthName
enTimothy Wright Mason
BirthPlace
enBirkenhead, England
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enTimothy Wright Mason (1940–1990) was an English Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. He was one of the founders of the History Workshop Journal and specialised in the social history of the Third Reich. He argued for the "primacy of politics," i.e., that the Nazi government was "increasingly independent of the influence of the [German] economic ruling classes," and believed the Second World War had been triggered by an economic crisis inside Germany.
DeathDate
5 March 1990
DeathPlace
enRome, Italy
Discipline
enHistory
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enTimothy Wright Mason (1940–1990) was an English Marxist historian of Nazi Germany. He was one of the founders of the History Workshop Journal and specialised in the social history of the Third Reich. He argued for the "primacy of politics," i.e., that the Nazi government was "increasingly independent of the influence of the [German] economic ruling classes," and believed the Second World War had been triggered by an economic crisis inside Germany.
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Influenced
Ian Kershaw
Influences
enE. P. Thompson
enFranz Neumann
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enArguing for a "primacy of politics" approach to Nazi Germany and for World War II being caused by an economic crisis in Germany
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enTimothy Mason
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Adolf Hitler
Anschluss
Armenian genocide
Birkenhead
Birkenhead School
Category:1940 births
Category:1990 suicides
Category:20th-century English historians
Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford
Category:British Marxist historians
Category:English Marxist writers
Category:Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford
Category:Historians of fascism
Category:Historians of Nazism
Category:People educated at Birkenhead School
Category:People from Birkenhead
Category:Suicides in Italy
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Determinism
E. P. Thompson
East Germany
Ernst Nolte
Fascist Italy (1922–1943)
Four Year Plan
France
Franz Neumann (political scientist)
German history
German Revolution of 1918–19
Henry Ashby Turner
Ian Kershaw
Italy
Karl Dietrich Bracher
Khmer Rouge
Klaus Hildebrand
Kurt Gossweiler
Margaret Thatcher
Marxist
Mein Kampf
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Nazi Germany
Peter Alter
Richard Overy
Rome
Second World War
Social history
Social imperialism
Soviet Union
St Antony's College, Oxford
St Peter's College, Oxford
The Holocaust
Third Reich
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Working class
MainInterests
Nazi Germany
Name
enTimothy Mason
Name
enTimothy Mason
Nationality
enEnglish
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Peter Alter
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enTim Mason
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تيموثى ماسون
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SubDiscipline
enModern German history
Subject
Category:1940 births
Category:1990 suicides
Category:20th-century English historians
Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford
Category:British Marxist historians
Category:English Marxist writers
Category:Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford
Category:Historians of fascism
Category:Historians of Nazism
Category:People educated at Birkenhead School
Category:People from Birkenhead
Category:Suicides in Italy
ThesisTitle
enNational Socialist Policies Towards the German Working Classes, 1925–1939
ThesisYear
1971
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Workplaces
enSt Peter's College, Oxford