The Cambridge world history of genocide Volume 1 Genocide in the ancient, medieval and premodern worlds edited by Ben Kiernan, T. M. Lemos, Tristan S. Taylor

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kiernan, Ben, editor.

Lemos, T. M. (Tracy Maria), editor.

Taylor, Tristan S., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--History.

Genocide.

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 I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the early modern era. The themes examined include the roles of racism, the state, religion, gender prejudice, famine, and climate crises, as well as the role of human decision-making in the causation of genocide. The case studies cover events on four continents, ranging from prehistoric Europe and the Andes to ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, the early Greek world, Rome, Carthage, and the Mediterranean. It continues with the Norman Conquest of England's North, the Crusades, the Mongol Conquests, medieval India and Viet Nam, and a panoramic study of pre-modern China, as well as the Spanish conquests of the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, and Mexico

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

List of Contributors to Volume I

General Editor's Acknowledgements

General Editor's Introduction to the Series: Genocide: Its Causes, Components, Connections and Continuing Challenges

Introduction to Volume I

Part I Themes of Genocide through History

1 Genocide before the State?

2 The Religion-Genocide Nexus

3 Genocide and Gender: Dynamics and Consequences

4 Genocide, Starvation and Famine

5 Climate, Violence and Ethnic Conflict in the Ancient World

Part II The Ancient World

6 Genocide in Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Sources

7 Genocide in Ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze and Iron Ages

8 Urbicide in the Ancient Greek World, 480-330 bce

9 Violence, Emotions and Justice in the Hellenistic Period

10 A Tale of Three Cities: The Roman Destruction of Carthage, Corinth and Numantia

11 Caesar's Gallic Genocide: A Case Study in Ancient Mass Violence

12 Genocidal Perspectives in the Roman Empire's Approach towards the Jews

13 Religious Violence in the Later Roman Empire: The Tetrarchic Persecutions, 302-313 ce

14 Genocide, Extermination and Mass Killing in Chinese History

Part III The Medieval World and Early Imperial Expansions

15 William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North, 1069-1070: What, If Not Genocide?

16 Genocidal Massacres of Jews in Medieval Western Europe, 1096-1392

17 Crusaders and Mass Killing at Jerusalem in 1099

18 The Albigensian Crusade and the Early Inquisitions into Heretical Depravity, 1208-1246

19 Mongol Genocides of the Thirteenth Century

20 Việt Nam and the Genocide of Champa, 1470-1509

21 Genocidal Massacres in Medieval India

22 Mass Extermination in Prehistoric Andean South America

23 The Spanish Destruction of the Canary Islands: A Template for the Caribbean Genocide

24 Genocidal Massacres in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas: Xaragua, Cholula and Toxcatl, 1503-1519

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 27, 2023)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108655989

110865598X

1108660851

9781108660853

OCLC:

1375517557

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