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Oxford University Press, USA
The Final Solution: A Genocide
The Final Solution: A Genocide
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The Holocaust is frequently depicted in isolation by its historians. Some of them believe that to place it in any kind of comparative context risks diminishing its uniqueness and even detracts from the enormity of the Nazi crime. In reality, such a restricted understanding of uniqueness has
pulled the Holocaust apart from history and set up barriers to a better understanding of the racial onslaught unleashed within the Third Reich and its conquered territories. Working against the grain of much earlier writing, this innovative new history combines a detailed re-appraisal of the development of the genocide of the Jews, a full consideration of Nazi policies against other population groups, and a comparative analysis of other modern genocides. The Holocaust is portrayed as the culmination of a much wider history of European genocide and ethnic cleansing, from the late nineteenth century onwards. Ultimately, Bloxham shows that an explanation for the Holocaust rooted exclusively in Nazism and anti-Semitism is inadequate when set against one
that is both prepared to give due weight to the immediate circumstances of the Second World War in eastern Europe and to situate the Jewish genocide within the broader patterns of human behavior in the late-modern world.
Author: Donald Bloxham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199550340
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2010
pulled the Holocaust apart from history and set up barriers to a better understanding of the racial onslaught unleashed within the Third Reich and its conquered territories. Working against the grain of much earlier writing, this innovative new history combines a detailed re-appraisal of the development of the genocide of the Jews, a full consideration of Nazi policies against other population groups, and a comparative analysis of other modern genocides. The Holocaust is portrayed as the culmination of a much wider history of European genocide and ethnic cleansing, from the late nineteenth century onwards. Ultimately, Bloxham shows that an explanation for the Holocaust rooted exclusively in Nazism and anti-Semitism is inadequate when set against one
that is both prepared to give due weight to the immediate circumstances of the Second World War in eastern Europe and to situate the Jewish genocide within the broader patterns of human behavior in the late-modern world.
Author: Donald Bloxham
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780199550340
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2010
About the Author
Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at Edinburgh University. An expert in the history of genocide and the punishment of genocide, he is the author of Genocide on Trial (2001) and The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (2005), both also published by Oxford University Press. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (2009) and the monograph series Zones of Violence.
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