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References
- ↑ Moses, Anthony Dirk (2000). The Forty-fivers: The Languages of Republicanism and the Foundation of West Germany, 1945–1977 (PhD thesis). Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 47068134.
- ↑ "A. Dirk Moses". The City College of New York. 25 July 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ↑ "A. Dirk Moses Faculty Page". UNC History Department. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ↑ Moses, A. Dirk (2021). The problems of genocide : permanent security and the language of transgression. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-21730-6. OCLC 1159607278.
- ↑ Anne Fuchs, Jonathan James Long, W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History, p. 110, Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. The term is used in an essay Moses published in 2002: “Conceptual Blockages and Definitional Dilemmas in the Racial Century: Genocide of Indigenous Peoples and the Holocaust,” Patterns of Prejudice, 36:4 (2002), 7-36. Extracted in Berel Lang and Simone Gigliotti, eds., The Holocaust: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 449-63.
- ↑ Gewarth, Robert. "UCD War Studies". Dirk Moses. UCD. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ↑ "Dirk Moses". The Conversation. 22 July 2016. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ↑ Dirk Moses
- ↑ "Dirk Moses". Archived from the original on 15 October 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ Anderson, Margaret Lavinia; Reynolds, Michael; Kieser, Hans-Lukas; Balakian, Peter; Moses, A. Dirk; Akçam, Taner (2013). "Taner Akçam, The Young Turks' crime against humanity: the Armenian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)". Journal of Genocide Research. 15 (4): 463–509. doi:10.1080/14623528.2013.856095. S2CID 73167962.
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- ↑ Moses 2021, p. 34.
- ↑ Moses 2021, p. 1.
- ↑ Moses, A. Dirk (23 May 2021). "The German Catechism". Geschichte der Gegenwart.
- ↑ "A New German Historians' Debate? A Conversation with Sultan Doughan, A. Dirk Moses, and Michael Rothberg (Part I)". Journal of the History of Ideas. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
- ↑ "The Catechism Debate". The New Fascism Syllabus. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
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