The meaning of genocide
By: Mark Levene
Edition: Paperback ed.
Series: Genocide in the age of the nation-state
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9781845111953; 9781845117528; 9781845110574; 9781845111939; 9781845111946
Subjects: Social aspects; Genocide; History
Description: "How should we understand genocide in the modern world? As an aberration from the norms of a dominant liberal international society? Or rather as a guide to the very dysfunctional nature of the international system itself? "The Meaning of Genocide" is the first work of its nature to consider the phenomenon within a broad context of world historical development. In this book, Mark Levene sets out the conceptual issues in the study of genocide, addressing the fundamental problems of defining genocide and understanding what we mean by perpetrators and victims, before placing it in the context of world history. "The Meaning of Genocide" is the first of a major four-volume survey which examines its subject within an extensive global and historical framework and which will become the definitive work on the subject."--Bloomsbury Publishing.