Stimulated anew in the 1990s by the slaughter and the so-called
ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and by the horrors of
Rwanda, research about and around genocide flourishes as never
before. Genocide studies has now accrued a large, sophisticated,
and growing, body of scholarly literature. This growth looks set to
continue: historians and social scientists are increasingly casting
their analytical nets further into the past to investigate whether
group destruction and population expulsions have been constitutive
of imperial and state expansion over millennia. And, moreover,
events such as the Sudanese government s genocidal
counter-insurgency in Darfur suggest that, like war, genocide is a
pervasive feature of human society that is here to stay.
Addressing the need for an authoritative and comprehensive
reference work to enable users to make sense of and to navigate
around the ever more complex research corpus, Genocide is a new
title in Routledge s Critical Concepts in Historical Studies
series. Edited by A. Dirk Moses of the University of Sydney, it is
a six-volume collection of foundational and the very best
cutting-edge scholarship.
Genocide is at once a legal, historical, and sociological
concept; it is subject to considerable definitional dispute. Volume
I ( The Discipline of Genocide Studies ) brings together the most
important and influential thinking on its contested definition
(what, for instance, is the relationship of genocide to mass murder
and war crimes?). It also gathers work on the various attempts to
explain the occurrence of genocide.
The collection is characterized by its broad temporal and
geographical coverage; Volumes II ( Genocide Before Modernity ) and
III ( Colonial and Imperial Genocides ) collect the key research on
genocidal phenomena across history and in all parts of the globe.
The scholarship gathered here includes work on the Roman Empire,
the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and the campaigns against its
indigenous peoples by settler colonies in the New World.
Volumes IV VI of the collection focus on genocide in the
twentieth century and beyond. Volume IV is devoted to the
Holocaust, and to the Nazi extermination policies more generally,
and to Stalin s genocidal policies in the Soviet Union. Volume V (
Post-Colonial and -Imperial Genocide ) gathers key research on
often overlooked and sometimes wilfully ignored episodes. Topics
covered here include the partition of India; Nigeria, 1967 70; and
the ongoing events in Darfur.
The scholarship assembled in the final volume ( Humanitarian
Intervention, the Prosecution of Genocide, Trauma, and Recovery )
brings together vital research on anti-genocide international law
since 1948. It also focuses on the work of international criminal
tribunals. Finally, Volume VI also explores the emergence of the
controversial duty to protect doctrine.
Genocide is supplemented with a full index and other scholarly
apparatus. It also includes a comprehensive introduction, newly
written by the editor, which places the collected material in its
historical and intellectual context. The collection is a landmark
reference work and is destined to be valued by scholars and
students as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
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General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Critical Concepts in Historical Studies |
Release date: |
April 2010 |
First published: |
2010 |
Editors: |
A. Dirk Moses
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 193mm (L x W x H) |
Format: |
Hardcover
• Hardcover
• Hardcover
• Hardcover
• Hardcover
• Hardcover
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Pages: |
2568 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-49375-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Warfare & defence >
Other warfare & defence issues >
War crimes >
Genocide
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LSN: |
0-415-49375-7 |
Barcode: |
9780415493758 |
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