The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies

The first book to subject both genocide and this young discipline to systematic, in-depth analysis. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide world-wide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary approaches.

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.

Should reside on the desk of every Holocaust and genocide scholar, as well as in all academic libraries. It is invaluable in both its comprehensiveness and its specificity.

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Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at Edinburgh University, and works on the perpetration, punishment and representation of genocide. He is author of The Final Solution: A Genocide (2009), The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (2005), which won the 2007 Raphael Lemkin prize for genocide scholarship, Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory (2001), all published by Oxford University Press, and is co-author of The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (2005) with Tony Kushner. A. Dirk Moses is Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. His interests are in world history, genocide, the United Nations, colonialism/imperialism and terror, about which he has published a number of anthologies. His book on postwar German debates about the recent past appeared as German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge, 2007), winner of the H-Soz-u-Kult prize for contemporary history in 2008.

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The first comprehensive, in-depth analysis of genocide and the new field of genocide studies
Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide world-wide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary approaches
Unparalleled breadth of coverage, including Asia, colonial and modern Africa, South and North America, the Ottoman Empire, Nazi Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe
Includes sustained treatment of gender, memory, the state, culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United Nations, and prosecutions
Reflects the key disciplines that study genocide: history, anthropology, law, political science, sociology, and philosophy
Challenging final chapter considers the significance of genocide in the contemporary world, making links to environmental crises and geopolitical instability
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.

Inhalt
PART I: CONCEPTS; 1. Editor's Introduction: Changing Themes in the Study of Genocide; 2. Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide; 3. 'Ethnic Cleansing' versus Genocide?; 4. Gender and Genocide; 5. The State and Genocide; 6. Genocide and Memory; PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES; 7. The Law and Genocide; 8. Sociology and Genocide; 9. Political Science and Genocide; 10. Anthropology and Genocide; 11. Social Psychology and Genocide; 12. Philosophy and Genocide; PART III: PREMODERN AND EARLY MODERN GENOCIDE; 13. Antiquity; 14. Early Medieval Europe; 15. Central and Late Medieval Europe; 16. Colonial Latin America; 17. Rethinking Genocide in North America; PART IV: GENOCIDE IN THE LATE MODERN WORLD; 18. Genocide and Mass Violence in the 'Heart of Darkness': Africa in the Colonial Period; 19. Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire; 20. Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR; 21. The Nazi Empire; 22. Twentieth Century China: Ethnic Assimilation and Inter-Group Violence; 23. Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia; 24. State Violence and Secessionist Rebellions in Asia; 25. National Security Doctrine in Latin America: the Genocide Question; 26. Genocide and Population Displacement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe; 27. Genocidal Warfare in North-East Africa; 28. War and Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region since Independence; PART V: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: RULES AND RESPONSES; 29. The United, Nations, The Cold War, and its Legacy; 30. Military Intervention; 31. Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Genocidaires; 32. From Past to Future: Future Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century; Index

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