History, Memory and Mass Atrocity: Essays on the Holocaust and Genocide

by Dan Stone

The book's main theme is the interpretation of the Holocaust and genocide in historiography, philosophy and the contemporary culture of commemoration. Running through the essays is an attempt to understand the Holocaust's relationship to 'modernity'; the need to find ways of understanding genocide through apparently 'non-rational' forms of explanation (especially derived from anthropology); and the desirability of relating the Holocaust to other instances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853036616
• ISBN13: 9780853036616
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"