Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding / Alon Confino.
Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding / Alon Confino.
Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding / Alon Confino.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Date
2012.
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N940.5318/295
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xi, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Thinking the Holocaust -- Pt. II. Thresholds and Limits of History.
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2012.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"This book proposes to understand the Holocaust by looking at Nazi and German culture and sensibilities that made the persecution and extermination imaginable, possible, and conceivable. It critically reviews the keycurrents in Holocaust historiography in the last generation, arguing for a new approach that places at the center not simply what happ...
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Foundational pasts : the Holocaust as historical understanding / Alon Confino.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-176) and index.
HSC info copy located in section: History - Modern.
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N940.5318/295
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74Vv7QWkzX3l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv7QWkzX3l
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ISBN
0521736323 (paperback)
9780521516655 (hardback)
052151665X (hardback)
9780521736329 (paperback)
DDC
940.5318
MMS ID
991008872059702626
