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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965475303321

Autore

Bosworth R. J. B

Titolo

Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima : history writing and the Second World War 1945-1990 / / R.J.B. Bosworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

1-134-83828-X

1-134-83829-8

0-203-21480-3

0-585-45204-0

1-280-32471-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

New international history series

Disciplina

940.53/072

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Historiography

History, Modern - 1945-1989 - Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Second World War and the historians; The origins of the Third World War and the making of English social history; Germany and the Third, Second and First World Wars; The Historikerstreit and the relativisation of Auschwitz; The sorrow and the pity of the fall of France and the rise of French historiography; The eclipse of anti-Fascism in Italy; Glasnost reaches Soviet historiography; Hiroshima, mon amour: under eastern eyes; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicised that experience. Bosworth argues that the traumatic history of the war has remained crucial to the politics of post-war societies.