The Oxford handbook of genocide studies / edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses.

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 675 p. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780199677917

Other title:

Genocide studies

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Genocide

DDC classification:

364.15

Contents:

Editor's introduction: Changing Themes in the Study of Genocide / Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses -- Pt. 1. Concepts -- Ch. 1 Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide / A. Dirk Moses -- Ch. 2. 'Ethnic Cleansing' versus Genocide? / Ben Lieberman -- Ch. 3. Gender and Genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey -- Ch. 4. The State and Genocide / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Ch. 5. Genocide and Memory / Dan Stone -- Pt. 2. Interdisciplinary perspectives -- Ch. 6. The Law and Genocide / William Schabas -- Ch. 7. Sociology and Genocide / Martin Shaw -- Ch. 8. Political Science and Genocide / Scott Straus -- Ch. 9. Anthropology and Genocide / Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- Ch. 10. Social Psychology and Genocide / Paul Roth -- Ch. 11. Philosophy and Genocide / Martin Shuster -- Pt. 3. Premodern and early modern genocide -- Ch. 12. Genocide in the Ancient World / Hans van Wees -- Ch. 13. Early Medieval Europe: the Case of Britain and Ireland / James Fraser -- Ch. 14. Central and Late Medieval Europe / Len Scales -- Ch. 15. Colonial Latin America / Nicolas A. Robins -- Ch. 16. Rethinking Genocide in North America / Greg Smithers -- Ch. 16. Rethinking Genocide in North America / Greg Smithers -- Pt. 4. Genocide in the late modern world -- Ch. 17. Genocide and Mass Violence in the 'Heart of Darkness': Africa in the Colonial Period / Dominik Schaller -- Ch. 18. Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire / Hilmar Kaiser -- Ch. 19. Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR / Nicolas Werth -- Ch. 20. The Nazi Empire / Christopher Browning -- Ch. 21. Twentieth Century China: Ethnic Assimilation and Inter-Group Violence / Uradyn Bulag -- Ch. 22. Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia / Robert Cribb -- Ch. 23. State-sponsored Violence and Secessionist Rebellions in Asia / Geoffrey Robinson -- Ch. 24. National Security Doctrine in Latin America: the Genocide Question / Daniel Feierstein -- Ch. 25. Genocide and Population Displacement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe / Cathie Carmichael -- Ch. 26. Genocidal Warfare in North-East Africa / Alex de Waal -- Ch. 27. War and Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region since Independence / Omar McDoom -- Pt. 5. The contemporary world: rules and responses -- Ch. 28. The United, Nations, The Cold War, and its Legacy / Gerd Hankel -- Ch. 29. Military Intervention / Alex J. Bellamy -- Ch. 30. Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Génocidaires / Donald Bloxham and Devin O. Pendas -- Ch. 31. From Past to Future: Future Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century / Mark Levene --

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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