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Afterword: Hauntings and Revisitings

Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi

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Reverberations of Nazi Violence in Germany and Beyond : Disturbing Pasts

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Disturbing Pasts, the richly textured subject of this volume, has long been a personal and intellectual preoccupation of mine. It colours my fiction and non-fiction alike. You could even say that memory and its overt and ghostly...

Introduction: The Holocaust and the genocides in Europe

Benjamin Lieberman

Benjamin Lieberman is Professor at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, USA. His research interests include ethnic cleansing and genocide. He is the author of Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing and the Making of Modern Europe (2006) Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Holocaust and Genocides in Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Today Auschwitz Birkenau is a museum and memorial at the town of Os´wie˛cim in southern Poland. During the Second World War close to 1 million European Jews were murdered at Auschwitz, along with tens of thousands of other victims...

Introduction: Gendering Genocide Studies

Amy E. Randall

Amy E. Randall is Associate Professor of History at Santa Clara University, USA. She is the author of The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century : A Comparative Survey

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...When it comes to understanding genocide, gender matters. This has not always been evident, and even today there are critics and skeptics. Indeed, when feminist scholars in Holocaust studies first began examining women’s experiences...

Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction

Daniel H. Magilow

Daniel H. Magilow is Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. He is the author of The Photography of Crisis: The Photo Essays of Weimar Germany (2012) and In Her Father’s Eyes: A Childhood Extinguished by the Holocaust (2008) and the co-editor, along with Elizabeth Bridges and Kristin T. Vander Lugt, of Nazisploitation! The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Culture and Cinema (2012). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Lisa Silverman

Lisa Silverman is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. She is the author of Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars (2012), the co-editor, along with Arijit Sen, of Making Place: Space and Embodiment in the City (2014) and the co-editor, along with Deborah Holmes, of Interwar Vienna: Culture between Tradition and Modernity (2009). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Holocaust Representations in History : An Introduction

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The Holocaust is not simply a label for the twentieth century’s best-known genocide. It has become a household word, a “master moral paradigm,” in one scholar’s phrasing, unparalleled in its enormity and scope and, whether appropriately...

Honour, violence and emotion: An afterword

Carolyn Strange

Carolyn Strange is Graduate Director and Senior Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In 1688 Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume described violence in the name of honour, particularly the duel, as an absurdity that civilization would conquer over time: ‘All advances towards reason and good sense are slow...

Conclusion: Observations on the Future Store, the Future Map and the Future

Kitty Millet

Kitty Millet is Professor of Holocaust Studies and Comparative Jewish Literatures at San Francisco State University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust : A Comparative History of Persecution

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Jeremy Adler, ‘Good against Evil?’, in Social Theory after the Holocaust, ed. Robert Fine and Charles Turner (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000). The formulas of persecution and victimization As each section demonstrated...

Conclusion: The Future of The Law of War

Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant is Professor of History and Legal Studies, Bryant University, USA. He is the author of Confronting the “Good Death:” Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945–53 (2005) and Eyewitness to Genocide: Jewish Witnesses, West German Courts, and the “Operation Reinhard” Trials, 1956–1966 (2014). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A World History of War Crimes : From Antiquity to The Present

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...In the literature on the Law of War, many scholars over the years have portrayed premodern warfare as lacking restraint. On this view, premodern warfare was a carnival of bloodlust, in which stronger armies ravaged the weaker and civilians...

States of War: ‘Being Civilian’ in 1940s Spain

Jorge Marco

Jorge Marco

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Interrogating Francoism : History and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Spain

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Franco's military victory on 1 April 1939 did not mean the end of the war in Spain. Civilians from the defeated side continued to be subjected to a high intensity regime of terror until at least 1948, when the state of war in Spain...

‘We Did Not Fight’: Medical Pacifism and War

Fiona Reid

Fiona Reid is Associate Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of South Wales, UK, where she teaches modern European History. She is the author of Broken Men: Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain, 1914-1930 and a co-author (with Sharif Gemie and Laure Humbert) of Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Era of Total War, 1936-1948 (2011). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Medicine in First World War Europe : Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...‘Why don’t you refuse?’ my friendwould say to the dairyman. ‘Why shouldyou fight because another man tells you to?’It isn’t so simple as that, is it, dairyman?Bagnold, Diary without Dates, 103.Bagnold, Diary without Dates, 103. Just war...

Under The Sign of Three Dictatorships (1938–44)

Florin Abraham

Florin Abraham is Senior Researcher at the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism at The Romanian Academy and Lecturer at The National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Romania. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Romania Since The Second World War : A Political, Social and Economic History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Abraham succinctly presents the drama of Greater Romania’s unravelling, whose main actors were Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, which King Carol II could not prevent. The Stalin-Hitler Pact was at the origin not only of incorporating...