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New Textbooks and Recommended Reading
New Textbooks and Recommended Reading
Genocide Studies 3rd Edition
Century of Genocide Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts Edited by Samuel Totten, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Century of Genocide details the causes and ramifications of the genocides perpetrated in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Historical context provides the necessary background on the actors and victims to help us better understand these episodes of atrocious political violence.
2008: 6 x 9: 672pp Hb: 978-0-415-99084-4: £90.00 Pb: 978-0-415-99085-1: £26.99 eBook: 978-0-203-89043-1 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415990851
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Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide Paul R. Bartrop, Deakin University, Australia and Steven L. Jacobs, University of Alabama, USA
Series: Routledge Key Guides
This unique volume critically discusses the works of fifty of the most influential scholars involved in the study of the Holocaust and genocide. Studying each scholar’s background and influences, the authors examine the ways in which their major works have been received by critics and supporters, and analyse each thinker’s contributions to the field. Key figures discussed range from historians and philosophers, to theologians, anthropologists, art historians and sociologists.
August 2010: 216 x 138: 336pp Hb: 978-0-415-77550-2: £65.00 Pb: 978-0-415-77551-9: £16.99 eBook: 978-0-203-84602-5 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415775519
New • 2nd Edition
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Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction
New Directions in Genocide Research
Adam Jones, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada
Adam Jones, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada
This book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity’s enduring blights.
Written in clear and lively prose, liberally sprinkled with over 100 illustrations and maps, and including personal testimonies from genocide survivors, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction has established itself as the core textbook of the new generation of genocide scholarship. An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a broad selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction Part 1: Overview 1. The Origins of Genocide 2. State and Empire; War and Revolution Part 2: Cases 3. Genocide of Indigenous Peoples 4. The Ottoman Destruction of Christian Minorities 5. Stalin and Mao 6. The Jewish Holocaust 7. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge 8. Bosnia and Kosovo 9. Apocalypse in Rwanda Part 3: Social Science Perspectives 10. Psychological Perspectives 11. The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide 12. Political Science and International Relations 13. Gendering Genocide Part 4: The Future of Genocide 14. Memory, Forgetting and Denial 15. Justice, Truth and Redress 16. Strategies of Intervention and Prevention September 2010: 246 x 174: 680pp Hb: 978-0-415-48618-7: £80.00 Pb: 978-0-415-48619-4: £24.99 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415486194
The Origins of Genocide
Genocide studies is a relatively new field of comparative inquiry, but recent years have seen an increasing range of themes and subject-matter being addressed reflecting a variety of features of the field and transformations within it. The combination of cutting-edge scholarship and innovative approaches to familiar subjects makes this essential reading for all students and scholars in the field of genocide studies. Selected Contents: Introduction Adam Jones Part 1: Theories 1. From Definition to Process: The Effects and Roots of Genocide Benjamin Lieberman 2. Genocidal Social Practices Daniel Feierstein 3. The Morality of Genocide Christopher J. Powell Part 2: Themes 4. Cultural Genocide: Destroying Material Culture, Destroying Identity Pamela De Condappa 5. Genocidal Masculinities Elisa von Joeden-Forgey 6. (In)visible males: A Critical Assessment of UN Gender Mainstreaming Policies in the Congolese Gendercide Paula Drumond Rangel Campos 7. Tracking Evidence of the Genocide through Environmental Change: Applying Remote Sensing to the Study of Genocide 8. Genocide and Structural Violence: Charting the Terrain Adam Jones 9. Moral Bystanders and Mass Violence Ernesto Verdeja Part 3: Cases 10. Revisiting the American Genocide Debate Benjamin Madley 11. Globalizing Nazi Crimes: A Postcolonial Reading of the Holocaust Jürgen Zimmerer 12. Colonialism, Ethnicity and Genocide in the African Great Lakes Region – A Transnational Approach Dominik J. Schaller 13. South Asia and Genocide: A Case for Prevention Benita Sumita June 2011: 246 x 174: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-49596-7: £75.00 Pb: 978-0-415-49597-4: £22.99 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415495974
Raphael Lemkin as a Historian of Mass Violence Edited by Dominik J. Schaller, Ruprecht Karls University, Germany and Jürgen Zimmerer, University of Sheffield, UK This year the United Nations celebrate the 60th anniversary of the ’Genocide Convention’. This volume for the first time analyses the historical scholarship of the founding figure of the convention, Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959). 2009: 246 x 174: 128pp Hb: 978-0-415-48026-0: £80.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415480260
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