| Description |
1 online resource (363 pages) |
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Routledge Histories |
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Routledge histories.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: Raphael Lemkin, historians and genocide; PART 1 Genocide in historical contexts; 2 Genocide and mass murder in Second Iron Age Europe: Methodological issues and case studies in the Iberian Peninsula; 3 Tudor Ireland: Anglicisation, mass killing and security; 4 To whom do the children belong? Genocidal displacement in Europe and Australia; 5 The Great Purge in Ukraine: The German Operation of the NKVD (1937-8) |
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6 Expulsions from Eastern Europe after 19457 Responding to the Holocaust: Bystanders, colonialism and conflicting priorities; PART 2 Genocide and ideologies of race, class and nation; 8 The Perfect Storm: Japanese military brutality during World War Two; 9 Cambodia: Paranoia, xenophobia, genocide and auto-genocide; 10 The Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-3; 11 Rethinking violence: Motives and modes of mass murder in the independent state of Croatia, 1941-5; 12 Genocide in the Great Lakes; PART 3 Interpreting genocide; 13 Genocide, memory, and memorialisation |
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14 Writing 'history' for Hitler: Holocaust denial since 194515 'White genocide': Postwar fascism and the ideological value of evoking existential conflicts; 16 'Those who have the sin ... go to this side': Genocide and religion; 17 Cultural genocide: Destruction of material and non-material human culture; PART 4 Mass violence, war and genocide; 18 The Russian state and the war in Chechnya; 19 Genocide and the end of the Ottoman Empire; 20 Police forces and the Holocaust: German perpetrators and local collaborators; 21 Masking genocide in Bosnia |
| Summary |
The Routledge History of Genocide takes an interdisciplinary yet historically focused look at history from the Iron Age to the recent past to examine episodes of extreme violence that could be interpreted as genocidal. Approaching the subject in a sensitive, inclusive and respectful way, each chapter is a newly commissioned piece covering a range of opinions and perspectives. The topics discussed are broad in variety and include:genocide and the end of the Ottoman EmpireStalin and the Soviet UnionIron Age warfaregenocide and religionJapanese military brutality during the Second World Warherita |
| Notes |
22 Nuclear weapons and genocide: Lessons from 1940Index |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Maguire, Richard, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9781317514848 |
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131751484X |
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