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Alon Confino seeks to rethink dominant interpretations of the Holocaust by examining it as a problem in cultural history. As the main research interests of Holocaust scholars are frequently covered terrain – the anti-Semitic ideological campaign, the machinery of killing, the brutal massacres during the war – Confino's research goes in a new direction. He analyzes the culture and sensibilities that made it possible for the Nazis and other Germans to imagine the making of a world without Jews. Confino seeks these insights from the ways historians interpreted another short, violent and foundational event in modern European history – the French Revolution. The comparison of the ways we understand the Holocaust with scholars' interpretations of the French Revolution allows Confino to question some of the basic assumptions of present-day historians concerning historical narration, explanation and understanding.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Foundational Pasts
• Author: Alon Confino
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780521736329
• ISBN: 0521736323
• ID: 04435044
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 191 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2011

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