Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern
era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in
colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of
European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the
discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis
and comprehension. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the
first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has
spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned
experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional,
thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine
secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat
the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa, the complex
ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region, and the structural
instability of the continent's northern horn. South and North
America receive detailed coverage, as do the Ottoman Empire,
Nazi-occupied Europe, and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained
attention is paid to themes like gender, memory, the state,
culture, ethnic cleansing, military intervention, the United
Nations, and prosecutions. The work is multi-disciplinary,
featuring the work of historians, anthropologists, lawyers,
political scientists, sociologists, and philosophers. Uniquely
combining empirical reconstruction and conceptual analysis, this
Handbook presents and analyses regions of genocide and the entire
field of 'genocide studies' in one substantial volume.
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