Identity politics in the age of genocide the Holocaust and historical representation
Examines how the Holocaust has impacted on ethnic and social groups, asking whether the Holocaust is a useful or destructive means of reading non-Jewish history. This book explains the rise of the Holocaust as a process, charting how its importance as a symbol has evolved. It is useful for students...
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| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge
2008
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| Series: | Routledge advances in international relations and global politics
64 |
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| Call Number : | HV 6322.7 .M33 2008 |
Table of Contents:
- 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