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Auteur(s) : Stone, Dan (1971-....)
Titre(s) : Histories of the Holocaust [Texte imprimé] / Dan Stone
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-314 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: Towards an integrated historiography of the Holocaust ; The final solution
: a German or European project? ; The decision making process in context ; The Holocaust
: child of modernity? ; Race science : the basis of the Nazi world view? ; Genocide,
the Holocaust, and the history of colonialism ; The Holocaust as an expression of
Nazi culture ; Conclusion: Into the abyss.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [289]-299
"The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history.
The volume of writing that fuels the numerous debates about it is overwhelming in
quantity and diversity. Even those who have dedicated their professional lives to
understanding the Holocaust cannot assimilate it all ; There is, then, an urgent need
to synthesize and evaluate the complex historiography on the Holocaust, exploring
the major themes and debates relating to it and drawing widely on the findings of
a great deal of research. Concentrating on the work of the last two decades, Histories
of the Holocaust examines the "Final Solution" as a European project, the decision-making
process, perpetrator research, plunder and collaboration, regional studies, ghettos,
camps, race science, antisemitic ideology, and recent debates concerning modernity,
organization theory, colonialism, genocide studies, and cultural history. Research
on victims is discussed, but Stone focuses more closely on perpetrators, reflecting
trends within the historiography, as well as his own view that in order to understand
Nazi genocide the emphasis must be on the culture of the perpetrators ; The book is
not a "history of the history of the Holocaust," offering simply a description of
developments in historiography. Stone critically analyses the literature, discerning
major themes and trends and assessing the achievements and shortcomings of the various
approaches. He demonstrates that there never can or should be a single history of
the Holocaust and facilitates an understanding of the genocide of the Jews from a
multiplicity of angles. An understanding of how the Holocaust could have happened
can only be achieved by recourse to histories of the Holocaust: detailed day-by-day
accounts of high-level decision-making; long-term narratives of the Holocaust's relationship
to European histories of colonialism and warfare; micro-historical studies of Jewish
life before, during, and after Nazi occupation; and cultural analyses of Nazi fantasies
and fears."--pub. desc
Sujet(s) : Shoah -- Historiographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199566792 (hardback). - ISBN 0199566798 (hardback). - ISBN 9780199566808
(pbk.). - ISBN 0199566801 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42440833f
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