Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity s enduring blight [...]
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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity s enduring blights. Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this unique book: Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including the concept of genocidal intent, and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes. Discusses the role of state-building, imperialism, war, and social revolution in fueling genocide. Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide, each with a supplementary study. Explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science/international relations, and gender studies. Considers "The Future of Genocide," with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth, justice, and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention. Highlights of the new edition include: Box-texts on "Physical, Biological, and Cultural Genocide" and "Whatever Happened to Political Groups?" (Chapter 1) Nigeria/Biafra as a "contested case" of genocide (Chapter 1) Genocide, empire, and modernity in Europe: the "Bloodlands" and "Rimlands" literature (Chapter 2) Extensive new material on the Kurds, Islamic State/ISIS, and the civil wars/genocide in Iraq and Syria (Chapter 4) "Stalin: Return from the Crypt" Stalinist dictatorship in Russian popular memory, including a visit to the despot s hometown (Chapter 5) Indonesia in 1965 66 as a case of genocide (Chapter 7) A reworked and expanded Chapter 9, "Genocide in Africa s Great Lakes Region," with extensive new material on DR Congo and Burundi Conflict and atrocities in the world s newest state, South Sudan (Chapter 9) Canada s indigenous people and the Truth and Reconciliation process (Chapter 15) Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz and the tribunal s legacy, including an encounter with Ferencz in the very courtroom where Nazi mass killers were tried (Chapter 15) The role, activities, and constraints of the United Nations Office of Genocide Prevention (Chapter 16) "Is Humanity Becoming Less Genocidal?" the implications for genocide studies of Steven Pinker s The Better Angels of Our Nature (Chapter 16) Many new testimonies from genocide victims, survivors, witnesses and perpetrators Dozens of new images, including a special photographic essay, as well as maps, memorials, engravings, and artworks the richest collection of genocide-related imagery in a single book. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction remains the indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship. An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a broad selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources."