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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-257) and index.
Introduction : the Holocaust and identity politics -- Cosmopolitanizing the Holocaust : from the Eichmann trial to identity politics -- Considering Holocaust uniqueness : from Hebrew peoplehood to the Americanization of memory -- Colonialism, genocide, and indigenous rights : America, Australia, and New Zealand -- Uncle Sam's willing executioners? : indigenous genocide and representation in the United States -- Australia : aboriginal genocide and the Holocaust -- Indigenous history through the prism of the Holocaust : New Zealand Maori -- The Armenian genocide : the politics of recognition and denial -- The Armenian genocide and contemporary Holocaust scholarship -- Nanking, the Chinese holocaust, and Japanese atomic victim exceptionalism -- Serbs, Croats, and the dismemberment of Yugoslavia : war and genocide in the twentieth century -- Serbophobia and victimhood : Serbia and the successor wars in Yugoslavia -- Conclusions.
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Examines the impact the Holocaust has on ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history, explains the rise of the Holocaust as a process, charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved.