Identity politics in the age of genocide : the Holocaust and historical representation /

MacDonald, David Bruce,

Identity politics in the age of genocide : the Holocaust and historical representation / David B. MacDonald. - xii, 261 pages ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 64 . - Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 64. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-257) and index.

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.

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Genocide--Historiography
Genocide--History--Case studies
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography

HV6322.7 / .M33 2008

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