The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath, David M. Crowe (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2008), xvi + 524 pp., pbk. 49.00
Historians may ask whether we really need another Holocaust textbook. David Crowe's The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath answers that question with a resounding yes. This recent addition to the ever-expanding historiography provides not only a broad and useful overview, but it comes pac...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 146-148 |
| Review of: | The Holocaust (Boulder, Colo. [u.a.] : Westview Press, 2008) (Melendy, Brenda)
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| Summary: | Historians may ask whether we really need another Holocaust textbook. David Crowe's The Holocaust: Roots, History, and Aftermath answers that question with a resounding yes. This recent addition to the ever-expanding historiography provides not only a broad and useful overview, but it comes packaged with a strong narrative and extensive bibliographic support for university and law school students. While a thesis in a textbook can be elusive, Crowe skillfully synthesizes scholarship in the subfields of Holocaust history (for instance, Henry Friedlander on the euthanasia program, and Omer Bartov and others on the role of the Wehrmacht) to advance his own overall argument: the Holocaust was a race war, and its deadly reach extended as broadly as Germany's military campaigns themselves. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq016 |