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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