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Browsing Department of History and Civilization (HEC) by Author "MOSES, A. Dirk"
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Title:The Holocaust and World History: Raphael Lemkin and comparative methodology
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:How does one avoid the competitive discourse of Holocaust uniqueness and counter-uniqueness with their overshadowing geopolitical stakes and unsatisfactory methodological implications? Showing that the underlying bone of ...
Title:Forum: Intellectual history in and of the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can one say about the state of the art in the Federal Republic? A number of aspects are discernible, not only in the practices and various traditions of intellectual history there, but also in its politics: the stark ...
Title:The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: The ‘uniqueness of the Holocaust’ and the question of genocide
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyzes the debate about the controversial Canadian Museum for Human Rights by reconstructing the efforts to establish a government-sponsored Holocaust museum from the late 1990s. This history reveals that ...
Title:Mass Violence and the End of the Dutch Colonial Empire in Indonesia
Author(s):LUTTIKHUS, Bart; MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:A recent strand of research in genocide studies emphasizes the intimate connections and the porous boundary between imperial and colonial violence and genocidal practices. So far, the British and German settler colonies ...
Title:Genocide and the Terror of History
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article explores how and why the ‘terror of history’ is an inescapable feature of modernity as it unfolds in historical reality as opposed to tidy sociological theories. For the ‘small nations’ and their disaporas ...
Title:Revisiting a Founding Assumption of Genocide Studies
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Genocide studies has come a long way over the past decade, having attained a level of intellectual sobriety, academic credibility, and public recognition virtually inconceivable forty years ago. At the same time, there ...
