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Histories of the Holocaust

Histories of the Holocaust

by Dan Stone
Histories of the Holocaust
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Histories of the Holocaust

Histories of the Holocaust

by Dan Stone

Overview

A comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes and debates in Holocaust historiography over the last two decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199566792
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/13/2010
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. As well as some fifty scholarly articles, he is the author or editor of ten books, including: Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (2002); Constructing the Holocaust: A Study in Historiography (2003); Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939: Before War and Holocaust (2003); The Historiography of the Holocaust (ed., 2004); History, Memory and Mass Atrocity: Essays on the Holocaust and Genocide (2006); The Historiography of Genocide (ed., 2008); and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Thinking about the Holocaust
1. The 'Final Solution': A German or European Project?
2. The Decision-Making Process in Context
3. The Holocaust: Child of Modernity?
4. Race Science: The Basis of the Nazi Worldview?
5. Genocide, the Holocaust and the History of Colonialism
6. The Holocaust as an Expression of Nazi Culture
Conclusion: Into the Abyss
Further Reading
Index
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