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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald Bloxham |
ISBN: | 9780199550333 0199550336 9780199550340 0199550344 |
OCLC Number: | 403854692 |
Description: | xi, 410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Documentary traces -- I.A European history of violence -- 1. Europe on the brink -- 2. The First World War era -- 3. Ethnopolitics, geopolitics, and the return to war -- II. Germany and the final solution -- 4. Nazism and Germany -- 5. Genocide in Germany's eastern empire -- 6. The patterns and limits of the European genocide -- III. Perpetrators and their environment -- 7. Why did they kill? -- IV. Civilization and the holocaust -- 8. Locating genocide in the human past. |
Series Title: | Oxford histories. |
Responsibility: | Donald Bloxham. |
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An ambitious book that forces a dramtic shift in our perceptions of the Holocaust...a dense, thoughtful book that challenges the reader on virtually every page. * Stephen G. Fritz, Central European History * This is a challenging book with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the history of the twentieth century. * Larry Eugene Jones, English Historical Review * Genuinely illuminating * Mark Mazower, Times Literary Supplement * A challenging book with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the history of the twentieth century. * Larry Eugene Jones, English Historical Review * ...sophisticated... * David Cesarani, History Today * [A] provocative and essential study of the Nazi genocide. * Jewish Book World * Bloxham does a great job [of] relating the mass murder of people with disabilities, Soviet POWs, Roma, Polish elites, and Serbs to that of Jews... Eloquently written and well argued, The Final Solution: A Genocide offers fresh perspective on the Nazi genocide whose extreme nature had unduly stalled the historical analysis. A masterful attempt at contextualization, Bloxham's book should be on a list of required reading for any university course ongenocide/mass violence. * Anton Weiss-Wendt, Golokost i Suchstnist * Read more...

