This landmark work explores in detail the decisions made in the decades following World War II that moved discussion of the Holocaust to the center of American life.
El libro analiza la visión que ha tenido a lo largo del tiempo la sociedad estadounidense (sus dirigentes y, en especial, los judíos norteamericanos) del Holocausto judío en la Alemania nazi. Desde el momento en que se estaba produciendo hasta la actualidad va haciendo un repaso a las distintas formas en que la memoria histórica se ha ido configurado respecto a ese hecho, desde la falta de interés e incluso la negativa a hablar de ello, hasta ...
The aspiration to relate the past' as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century.
The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. Drawing on the unpublished correspondence as well as the published writings of hundreds of American historians fro...
This landmark work explores in detail the decisions made in the decades following World War II that moved discussion of the Holocaust to the center of American life.