Dan Stone è uno storico dell'Europa moderna il cui lavoro si concentra sul fascismo, sul genocidio comparativo, sulla teoria razziale e sulla storia dell'antropologia. La sua scrittura si addentra negli aspetti più oscuri della storia umana, cercando di comprendere le complesse forze sociali e politiche che portano alla violenza e all'oppressione. L'approccio di Stone è analitico, concentrandosi sulla comprensione degli eventi storici nel loro contesto più ampio. Le sue opere offrono uno sguardo penetrante sulle sfaccettature traumatiche della storia moderna, stimolando la riflessione sulle cause e le conseguenze delle ideologie estremiste e dello sterminio.
This history delves into the Holocaust, presenting it not merely as a historical event but as a persistent trauma that continues to affect modern society. It challenges conventional narratives and emphasizes the ongoing impact of these brutal events, suggesting that the scars of the Holocaust are still evident in contemporary culture and collective memory. Through this lens, the book invites readers to consider the lasting implications of such atrocities on humanity.
The narratives of Dutch survivors Eddy de Wind, Louis Micheels, and Elie A. Cohen provide a sobering perspective on survival in Nazi camps, contrasting sharply with the more optimistic views of contemporaries like Bettelheim and Frankl. Their self-critical accounts, informed by psychoanalytic practice, reveal the complexities of survival beyond mere positivity and decisiveness. By comparing these writings with those of female doctors from Auschwitz, the book highlights evolving psychoanalytic concepts and how modern Holocaust historiography embraces insights previously overlooked.
Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service, set up to find missing persons at the end of World War II. Spanning across death marches, slave labour, and liberation, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive which holds over 30 million documents.
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll probably find something here to make you think' Sunday Times'Erudite...remarkable' The Observer'Outstanding' The TelegraphAn authoritative, revelatory new history[Bokinfo].
The collection features essays by Professor Dan Stone, exploring critical themes such as Fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust. It provides in-depth analysis and insights relevant to scholars and students engaged in antisemitism, genocide studies, and the historical impacts of World War II. The work serves as a valuable resource for understanding the complexities of these significant historical events and ideologies.
Nazi concentration camps are by no means the only examples of these 'extreme institutions'; Dan Stone sets out the fuller story, from the Boer War to Bosnia. He shows how different regimes have used concentration camps at times of crisis to control populations that appeared threatening, and examines their role in consciousness and identity.
Dan Stone presents a global history of concentration camps, and considers the importance of these institutions to modern consciousness and identity. Tracing camps from their origins in in early-twentieth century colonial warfare, he discusses their evolution throughout the last century, and the complex questions their use raises.
A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed
Shows how the anti-fascist consensus prevalent throughout Europe following World War II has been crumbling since the 1970s and how globalization, deregulation, the erosion of social-democratic welfare capitalism in the West, and the collapse of the Communist alternative in the East are leading to a social divisive, politically dangerous rise of fascism that could threaten the peace of Europe.
"The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the 35 chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, the The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the thirty five essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by acknowledged experts, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe"-- Provided by publisher