Oxford handbook of genocide studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 675
ISBN-13: 9780199232116
Description: This book subjects both genocide and genocide studies to systematic, in-depth analysis. 34 renowned experts study genocide world-wide through the ages by taking regional thematic, and interdisciplinary approaches.
Table of contents: title: Editor's Introduction: Changing Themes in the Study of Genocide / Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses; title: Raphael Lemkin, Culture, and the Concept of Genocide / A. Dirk Moses; title: 'Ethnic Cleansing' versus Genocide? / Ben Lieberman; title: Gender and Genocide / Elisa von Joeden-Forgey; title: The State and Genocide / Anton Weiss-Wendt; title: Genocide and Memory / Dan Stone; title: Part II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES; title: The Law and Genocide / William Schabas; title: Sociology and Genocide / Martin Shaw; title: Political Science and Genocide / Scott Straus; title: Anthropology and Genocide / Kevin Lewis O'Neill; title: Social Psychology and Genocide / Paul Roth; title: Philosophy and Genocide / Martin Shuster; title: Part III: PREMODERN AND EARLY MODERN GENOCIDE; title: Antiquity / Hans van Wees; title: Early Medieval Europe / James Fraser; title: Central and Late Medieval Europe / Len Scales; title: Colonial Latin America / Nicolas A. Robins; title: Rethinking Genocide in North America / Greg Smithers; title: Part IV: GENOCIDE IN THE LATE MODERN WORLD; title: Genocide and Mass Violence in the 'Heart of Darkness': Africa in the Colonial Period / Dominik Schaller; title: Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire / Hilmar Kaiser; title: Mass Deportations, Ethnic Cleansing, and Genocidal Politics in the Later Russian Empire and the USSR / Nicolas Werth; title: The Nazi Empire / Christopher Browning; title: Twentieth Century China: Ethnic Assimilation and Inter-Group Violence / Uradyn Bulag; title: Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia / Robert Cribb; title: State Violence and Secessionist Rebellions in Asia / Geoffrey Robinson; title: National Security Doctrine in Latin America: the Genocide Question / Daniel Feierstein; title: Genocide and Population Displacement in Post-Communist Eastern Europe / Cathie Carmichael; title: Genocidal Warfare in North-East Africa / Alex de Waal; title: War and Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region since Independence / Omar McDoom; title: Part V: THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: RULES AND RESPONSES; title: The United, Nations, The Cold War, and its Legacy / Gerd Hankel; title: Military Intervention / Alex J. Bellamy; title: Punishment as Prevention? The Politics of Prosecuting Genocidaires / Donald Bloxham and Devin O. Pendas; title: From Past to Future: Future Prospects for Genocide and its Avoidance in the Twenty-First Century / Mark Levene.