The Oxford handbook of genocide studies /
Genocide studies
edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- xii, 675 p. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Editor's introduction: Changing Themes in the Study of Genocide / Concepts -- Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide / 'Ethnic Cleansing' versus Genocide? / Gender and Genocide / The State and Genocide / Genocide and Memory / Interdisciplinary perspectives -- The Law and Genocide / Sociology and Genocide / Political Science and Genocide / Anthropology and Genocide / Social Psychology and Genocide / Philosophy and Genocide / Premodern and early modern genocide -- Genocide in the Ancient World / Early Medieval Europe: the Case of Britain and Ireland / Central and Late Medieval Europe / Colonial Latin America / Rethinking Genocide in North America / Rethinking Genocide in North America / Genocide in the late modern world -- Genocide and Mass Violence in the 'Heart of Darkness': Africa in the Colonial Period / Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire / Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR / The Nazi Empire / Twentieth Century China: Ethnic Assimilation and Inter-Group Violence / Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia / State-sponsored Violence and Secessionist Rebellions in Asia / National Security Doctrine in Latin America: the Genocide Question / Genocide and Population Displacement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe / Genocidal Warfare in North-East Africa / War and Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region since Independence / The contemporary world: rules and responses -- The United, Nations, The Cold War, and its Legacy / Military Intervention / Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Génocidaires / From Past to Future: Future Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century / Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses -- A. Dirk Moses -- Ben Lieberman -- Elisa von Joeden-Forgey -- Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Dan Stone -- William Schabas -- Martin Shaw -- Scott Straus -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- Paul Roth -- Martin Shuster -- Hans van Wees -- James Fraser -- Len Scales -- Nicolas A. Robins -- Greg Smithers -- Greg Smithers -- Dominik Schaller -- Hilmar Kaiser -- Nicolas Werth -- Christopher Browning -- Uradyn Bulag -- Robert Cribb -- Geoffrey Robinson -- Daniel Feierstein -- Cathie Carmichael -- Alex de Waal -- Omar McDoom -- Gerd Hankel -- Alex J. Bellamy -- Donald Bloxham and Devin O. Pendas -- Mark Levene -- Pt. 1. Ch. 1 Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Pt. 2. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Pt. 3. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 16. Pt. 4. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23. Ch. 24. Ch. 25. Ch. 26. Ch. 27. Pt. 5. Ch. 28. Ch. 29. Ch. 30. Ch. 31.
Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension.
The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire, Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions.
The work is multi-disciplinary, featuring the work of historians, anthropologists, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists, and philosophers. Uniquely combining empirical reconstruction and conceptual analysis, this Handbook presents and analyses regions of genocide and the entire field of 'genocide studies' in one substantial volume.