The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History

by Judith M. Hughes

Book Overview

Why did men and women in one of the best educated countries in the Western world set out to get rid of Jews? In this book, Judith M. Hughes focuses on how historians' efforts to grapple anew matters of actors' meanings, intentions, and purposes have prompted a return to psychoanalytically informed ways of thinking. Hughes makes her case with fine-grained analyses of books by Hugh Trevor-Roper, Ian Kershaw, Daniel Goldhagen, Saul Friedl nder, Christopher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107690447
• ISBN13: 9781107690448
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"