Genocide in the Age of the Nation State - The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (Hardcover)

Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth century phenomenon. In "The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide," Mark Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. It was European expansion into all hemispheres between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided the main stimulus to its pre-1914 manifestations.One critical outcome, on the cusp of modernity, was the French revolutionary destruction of the Vendee. Levene finishes this volume at the 1914 watershed with the destabilising effects of the 'rise of the West' on older Ottoman, Chinese, Russian and Austrian empires, with devastating consequences for peoples such as the Armenians, and the East European Jews. "The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide "is the second volume in Levene's sweeping four-volume survey, "Genocide in the Age of the Nation State."

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	Mark Levene
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-1-84511-057-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > Genocide Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-84511-057-9
Barcode:	9781845110574

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