The Cambridge world history of genocide Volume 3 Genocide in the contemporary era, 1914-2020 edited by Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kiernan, Ben, editor.

Lower, Wendy, editor.

Naimark, Norman M., editor.

Straus, Scott, 1970- editor.

Series:

Cambridge histories online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--History.

Genocide.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

World history of genocide

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023

Summary:

Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse, and Revolution; the crises of World War Two; the Cold War; and Globalization. Twenty-eight scholars with expertise in specific regions document thirty genocides from 1918 to 2021, in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The cases range from the Armenian Genocide to Maoist China, from the Holocaust to Stalin's Ukraine, from Indonesia to Guatemala, Biafra, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and finally the contemporary fate of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and the ISIS slaughter of Yazidis in Iraq. The volume ends with a chapter on the strategies for genocide prevention moving forward

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Maps

List of Contributors to Volume III

List of Introduction to Volume III

Part I Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse and Revolution

1 Prelude to Genocide: Humanitarianism, Racism and Antisemitism in the Early Twentieth Century

2 War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century

3 The Armenian Genocide: An Overview

4 Australia's Stolen Generations, 1914-2021

5 Eurocentrism, Silence and Memory of Genocide in Colonial Libya, 1929-1934

6 Spain 1936-1945: Coup d'État and Genocidal Practices in the Destruction of 'Anti-Spain'

7 Genocide in Stalinist Russia and Ukraine, 1930-1938

8 The Famine in Soviet Kazakhstan

Part II World War Two

9 From Persecution to Genocide: The Evolution of the Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy (1938-1942)

10 Systematic and Ad Hoc Persecution and Mass Murder in the Holocaust: Killings in Eastern Europe outside the Camps

11 Jewish Life and Death under Nazi Rule across Europe and around the Globe

12 The Nazi Camps and Killing Centres

13 State Violence during World War Two

14 The Genocide of the Romani People in Europe

15 The Nazis and the Slavs: Poles and Soviet Prisoners of War

16 The Nanjing Massacre

Part III The Nation-State System during the Cold War

17 Genocide in Latin America, 1950-2000

18 China under Mao, 1949-1976

19 Half a Century of Genocide and Extermination: Indonesia, 1965-1966

East Timor, 1975-1999

and West Papua, 1963-2020

20 Secession and Genocide in the Republic of Biafra, 1966-1970

21 Bangladesh, 1971

22 The Genocides in Cambodia, 1975-1979

23 The Guatemalan Genocide

24 Mass Violence and the Kurds: From the Late Ottoman Empire to ISIS

25 Vulnerable Peoples in the Contemporary Era: An Overview

Part IV Globalisation and Genocide since the Cold War

26 Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995

27 The Rwandan Genocide in Context

28 Genocides in the Sudans

29 Elements of Genocidal Ideology in Al-Qaeda and Its Offshoots, including Islamic State

30 The Yazidi Genocide

31 Genocide in Myanmar: The Assault on the Rohingya, 2010-2019

32 A Short History of Genocide Prevention across the Long Twentieth Century

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN:

9781108767118

1108767117

1108806279

9781108806275

1108806333

9781108806336

OCLC:

1375517535

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