Genocide in the contemporary era, 1914-2020

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Genocide in the contemporary era, 1914-2020

edited by Ben Kiernan ... [et al.]

(The Cambridge world history of genocide / general editor Ben Kiernan, v. 3)

Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Description

Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse, and Revolution; the crises of World War Two; the Cold War; and Globalization. Twenty-eight scholars with expertise in specific regions document thirty genocides from 1918 to 2021, in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The cases range from the Armenian Genocide to Maoist China, from the Holocaust to Stalin's Ukraine, from Indonesia to Guatemala, Biafra, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and finally the contemporary fate of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and the ISIS slaughter of Yazidis in Iraq. The volume ends with a chapter on the strategies for genocide prevention moving forward.

Table of Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Maps
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction to Volume III Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark and Scott Straus
  • Part I. Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse and Revolution: 1. Prelude to genocide: humanitarianism, racism and antisemitism in the early twentieth century Ben Kiernan
  • 2. War and genocide in the twentieth century Jay Winter
  • 3. The Armenian genocide: an overview Taner Akcam
  • 4. Australia's stolen generations, 1914-2021 Joanna Cruickshank and Crystal McKinnon
  • 5. Eurocentrism, silence, and memory of genocide in colonial Libya, 1929-1934 Ali Ahmida
  • 6. Spain 1936-1945: coup d'etat and genocidal practices in the destruction of 'anti-Spain' Antonio Miguez Macho
  • 7. Genocide in Stalinist Russia and Ukraine, 1930-1938 Norman Naimark
  • 8. The famine in Soviet Kazakhstan Sarah Isabel Cameron
  • Part II. World War Two: 9. From persecution to genocide: the evolution of the Nazi anti-Jewish policy (1938-1942) Florent Brayard
  • 10. Systematic and ad hoc persecution and mass murder in the Holocaust: killings in Eastern Europe outside the Camps Mary Fulbrook
  • 11. Jewish life and death under Nazi rule across Europe and around the globe Deborah Dwork
  • 12. The Nazi camps and killing centres Dieter Pohl
  • 13. State violence during World War II Raz Segal
  • 14. The genocide of the Romani people in Europe Jennifer Illuzzi
  • 15. The Nazis and the slavs: poles and Soviet POWs Norman Naimark
  • 16. The Nanjing massacre Yuki Tanaka
  • Part III. The Nation-state System During the Cold War: 17. Genocide in Latin America, 1950-2000 Daniel Feierstein and Lucrecia Molinari
  • 18. China under Mao, 1949-1976 Frank Dikoetter
  • 19. Half a century of genocide and extermination: Indonesia, 1965-66, East Timor, 1975-99, and West Papua, 1963-2020 Geoffrey Robinson
  • 20. Secession and genocide in the Republic of Biafra, 1966-70 Samuel Fury Childs Daly
  • 21. Bangladesh, 1971 Gary Bass
  • 22. The genocides in Cambodia, 1975-1979 Ben Kiernan
  • 23. The Guatemalan genocide Roddy Brett
  • 24. Mass violence and the Kurds: from the late Ottoman empire to ISIS Ugur UEmit UEngoer
  • 25. Vulnerable peoples in the contemporary era: an overview Mark Levene
  • Part IV. Globalization and Genocide since the Cold War: 26. Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995 Edina Becirevic
  • 27. The Rwandan genocide in context Scott Straus
  • 28. Genocides in the Sudans Clemence Pinaud
  • 29. Elements of genocidal ideology in Al Qaeda and its offshoots, including Islamic State Hayat Alvi
  • 30. The Yazidi genocide Sareta Ashraph
  • 31. Genocide in Myanmar: the assault on the Rohingya, 2010-2019 Azeem Ibrahim
  • 32. A short history of genocide prevention across the long twentieth century Scott Straus
  • Index.

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  • NCID
    BC18475119
  • ISBN
    • 9781108487078
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 814 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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