Foundational Pasts

von Alon Confino

194 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain - the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the war - Confino's research goes in a new direction. He analyzes the culture and sensibilities that made it possible for the Nazis and other Germans to imagine the making of a world without Jews. Confino seeks these insights from the ways historians interpreted another short, violent and foundational event in modern European history - the French Revolution. The comparison of the ways we understand the Holocaust with scholars' interpretations of the French Revolution allows Confino to question some of the basic assumptions of present-day historians concerning historical narration, explanation and understanding.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9780521516655
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.01.2012
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press