The Democratic Coup D'état

The Democratic Coup D'état
Author: Ozan O. Varol
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019062602X

The Democratic Coup d'État advances a simple, yet controversial, argument: democracy sometimes comes through a military coup. Covering coups that toppled dictators and installed democratic rule in countries as diverse as Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, and Colombia, the book weaves a balanced narrative that challenges everything we knew about military coups.

The Historiography of the Holocaust

The Historiography of the Holocaust
Author: D. Stone
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2004-01-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230524508

This collection of essays by leading scholars in their fields provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Holocaust historiography available. Covering both long-established historical disputes as well as research questions and methodologies that have developed in the last decade's massive growth in Holocaust Studies, this collection will be of enormous benefit to students and scholars alike.

Reading the Holocaust

Reading the Holocaust
Author: Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2002-05-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521012690

And she considers how the Holocaust has been portrayed in poetry, fiction, and film.

Collected Memories

Collected Memories
Author: Christopher R. Browning
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2003-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 029918983X

Christopher R. Browning addresses some of the most heated controversies that have arisen from the use of postwar testimony: Hannah Arendt’s uncritical acceptance of Adolf Eichmann’s self-portrayal in Jerusalem; the conviction of Ivan Demjanuk (accused of being Treblinka death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible") on the basis of survivor testimony and its subsequent reversal by the Israeli Supreme Court; the debate in Poland sparked by Jan Gross’s use of both survivor and communist courtroom testimony in his book Neighbors; and the conflict between Browning himself and Daniel Goldhagen, author of Hitler’s Willing Executioners, regarding methodology and interpretation in the use of pre-trial testimony. Despite these controversies and challenges, Browning delineates the ways in which the critical use of such problematic sources can provide telling evidence for writing Holocaust history. He examines and discusses two starkly different sets of "collected memories"—the voluminous testimonies of notorious Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Eichmann and the testimonies of 175 survivors of an obscure complex of factory slave labor camps in the Polish town of Starachowice.

Heritage, Museums and Galleries

Heritage, Museums and Galleries
Author: Gerard Corsane
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2005
Genre: Archaeological thefts
ISBN: 9780415289450

This reader provides a starting point and introductory resource for anyone wishing to engage with certain key issues relating to the heritage, museums and galleries sector.

Holocaust Fiction

Holocaust Fiction
Author: Sue Vice
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134666233

This is a critical survey of a broad range of fictional representations of the Holocaust over the last twenty years. It brings a new slant to the key debates and issues relevant to those looking at representation and the Holocaust.

The Case for Auschwitz

The Case for Auschwitz
Author: Robert Jan van Pelt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253028841

From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist, Fred Leuchter, which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court.

The Holocaust

The Holocaust
Author: Donald Bloxham
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005-07-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719037795

Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust, our understanding of it has traditionally been influenced by rather unsophisticated early perspectives and silence. This book summarizes and criticizes the existing scholarship on the subject and suggests new ways by which we can approach its study. It addresses the use of victim testimony and asks important questions: What function does recording the past serve for the victim? What do historians want from it? Are these two perspectives incompatible? It also examines the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and compares them to those responsible for other acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the early years of the twentieth century. In addition, it looks at the bystanders--examining the complexity and ambiguity at the heart of contemporary reaction.