edited by Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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ix, 250 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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"The chapters in this book have been published previously, though they mostly appear here in slightly altered form."--Introduction.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: History and its Discontents -- Interpreting the Holocaust -- Beyond the 'Auschwitz Syndrome': Holocaust Historiography after the Cold War -- Raphael Lemkin as Historian of the Holocaust -- The Years of Extermination and the Future of Holocaust Historiography -- The Holocaust and 'the Human' -- Fascism and Anti-fascism -- Anti-Fascist Europe Comes to Britain: Theorising Fascism as a Contribution to Defeating It -- 'The Mein Kampf Ramp': Emily Overend Lorimer and Hitler Translations in Britain -- Rolf Gardiner: An Honorary Nazi? -- Rural Revivalism and the Radical Right in Britain and France between the Wars -- The Uses and Abuses of 'Secular Religion': Jules Monnerot's Path from Communism to Fascism -- Politics and Cultures of Memory -- Genocide and Memory -- Memory Wars in the 'New Europe' -- Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute: The Future of Memory after the Age of Commemoration.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"From interpretations of the Holocaust to fascist thought and anti-fascists' responses, and the problems of memorializing this difficult past, this essay collection tackles topics which are rarely studied in conjunction. As well as historical analyses of fascist and anti-fascist thinking, Stone analyses the challenges involved in writing history in general and Holocaust historiography in particular. Following an introductory essay on 'history and its discontents', the wide-ranging chapters deal with individual thinkers of very different sorts, such as Hannah Arendt, Rolf Gardiner, Jules Monnerot and Saul Friedländer, movements such as interwar rural revivalism, the contested translation of Mein Kampf, émigré anti-fascists' writings, and the relationship between memory and history, especially with respect to atrocities like genocide. This unique collection of essays on a wide variety of topics contributes to understanding the roots and consequences of mid-twentieth-century Europe's great catastrophe."--Publisher's website.