Author Biography and Research Interests:
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a historian of ideas, who works on historiographical and philosophical interpretations of the Holocaust, comparative genocide, history of anthropology, and the cultural history of the British Right.
Podcasts:
The ‘Euthanasia Programme’ and the ‘Final Solution’: The Limits of the ‘Continuity Thesis’
Dan Stone
8th of December 2009 Oxford Brookes University, History of Medicine Seminar Series
It has become common to argue that the Nazi Euthanasia programme was an important way-station on the ‘twisted road’ to Auschwitz, that the elimination of ‘undesirables’ that began with the murder of asylum inmate
Publications:
- Dan Stone’s new book, Histories of the Holocaust, is forthcoming with OUP in June 2010, and he is editor of two forthcoming books, the Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History (OUP) and The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (Berghahn). Holocaust and Historical Methodology (Berghahn Books), and a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research on philosophy and genocide.
- The Historiography of Genocide (ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
- Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race and Genocide (ed. with Richard H. King, Berghahn Books, 2007).
- Colonialism and Genocide (ed. with A. Dirk Moses, Routledge, 2007).
- History, Memory and Mass Atrocity: Essays on the Holocaust and Genocide (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006).
- The Historiography of the Holocaust (ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2004);
- Responses to Nazism in Britain 1933-1939: Before War and Holocaust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
- Constructing the Holocaust: A Study in Historiography (Vallentine Mitchell, 2003).
- Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (Liverpool University Press, 2002).
- Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust (ed., Rodopi, 2001).
