Table of Contents

Preface Glossary and Abbreviations Introduction Part I: A EUROPEAN HISTORY OF VIOLENCE 1: Europe on the Brink 2: The First World War Era 3: Ethnopolitics, Geopolitics, and the Return to War Part II: NAZISM AND THE FINAL SOLUTION 4: Nazism and Germany 5: Genocide in Germany's Eastern Empire 6: The Patterns and Limits of the European Genocide Part III: PERPETRATORS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 7: Why did they kill? Part IV: CIVILIZATION AND THE HOLOCAUST 8: Locating Genocide in the Human Past Bibliography of Sources Cited Index

About the Author

Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at Edinburgh University. An expert in the history of genocide and the punishment of genocide, he is the author of Genocide on Trial (2001) and The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (2005), both also published by Oxford University Press. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (2009) and the
monograph series Zones of Violence.

Reviews

An ambitious book that forces a dramtic shift in our perceptions of the Holocaust...a dense, thoughtful book that challenges the reader on virtually every page.
*Stephen G. Fritz, Central European History*

This is a challenging book with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the history of the twentieth century.
*Larry Eugene Jones, English Historical Review*

Genuinely illuminating
*Mark Mazower, Times Literary Supplement*

A challenging book with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the history of the twentieth century.
*Larry Eugene Jones, English Historical Review*

...sophisticated...
*David Cesarani, History Today*

[A] provocative and essential study of the Nazi genocide.
*Jewish Book World*

Bloxham does a great job [of] relating the mass murder of people with disabilities, Soviet POWs, Roma, Polish elites, and Serbs to that of Jews... Eloquently written and well argued, The Final Solution: A Genocide offers fresh perspective on the Nazi genocide whose extreme nature had unduly stalled the historical analysis. A masterful attempt at contextualization, Bloxham's book should be on a list of required reading for any university course on genocide/mass violence.
*Anton Weiss-Wendt, Golokost i Suchstnist*