| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 839 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Overview -- 1 The Origins of Genocide -- Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity -- The Vendée uprising -- Zulu genocide -- Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin -- Defining genocide: The UN Convention -- Bounding genocide: Comparative genocide studies -- Discussion -- What is destroyed in genocide? -- Multiple and overlapping identities -- Dynamism and contingency -- The question of genocidal intent -- Contested cases of genocide -- Atlantic slavery-and after -- Area bombing and nuclear warfare -- The Biafra war -- UN sanctions against Iraq -- 9/11: Terrorism as genocide? -- Structural and institutional violence -- Is genocide ever justified? -- Further study -- Notes -- 2 State and Empire -- War and Revolution -- The state, imperialism, and genocide -- Imperial famines -- The Congo "rubber terror" -- The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia -- The US in Indochina -- The Soviets in Afghanistan -- Imperial ascent and dissolution -- Genocide and war -- The First World War and the dawn of industrial death -- The Second World War and the "barbarization of warfare" -- Genocide and social revolution -- The nuclear revolution and "omnicide" -- Further study -- Notes -- Part 2 Cases -- 3 Genocides of Indigenous Peoples -- Introduction -- Colonialism and the discourse of extinction -- The conquest of the Americas -- Spanish America -- The United States and Canada -- Other genocidal strategies -- Australia's Aborigines and the Namibian Hereros -- Genocide in Australia -- The Herero genocide -- Denying genocide, celebrating genocide -- Complexities and caveats -- Indigenous revival -- Further study -- Notes -- The genocide of Guatemala's Mayans -- 4 The Ottoman Destruction of Christian Minorities -- Introduction. |
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Origins of the genocide -- War, deportation, and massacre -- The Armenian genocide -- The Assyrian genocide -- The Pontian Greek genocide -- Aftermath: Attempts at justice -- Turkey: Denial … and growing recognition -- Further study -- Notes -- Iraq, Syria, and the rise of Islamic State (IS) -- 5 Stalin and Mao -- The Soviet Union and Stalinism -- 1917: The Bolsheviks seize power -- Collectivization and famine -- The Gulag -- The Great Purge of 1937-1938 -- The war years -- The destruction of national minorities -- China and Maoism -- Stalin, Mao, and genocide -- Further study -- Notes -- Chechnya -- 6 The Jewish Holocaust -- Introduction -- Origins -- "Ordinary Germans" and the Nazis -- The turn to mass murder -- Debating the Holocaust -- Intentionalists vs. functionalists -- Jewish resistance -- The Allies and the churches: Could the Jews have been saved? -- Willing executioners? -- Israel, the Palestinians, and the Holocaust -- Is the Jewish Holocaust "uniquely unique"? -- Further study -- Notes -- The Nazis' other victims -- 7 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge -- Origins of the Khmer Rouge -- War and revolution, 1970-1975 -- A genocidal ideology -- A policy of "urbicide," 1975 -- "Base people" vs. "New people" -- Cambodia's Holocaust, 1975-1979 -- Genocide against Buddhists and ethnic minorities -- Aftermath: Politics and the quest for justice -- Further study -- Notes -- Indonesia and East Timor -- 8 Bosnia and Kosovo -- Origins and onset -- Gendercide and genocide in Bosnia -- The international dimension -- Kosovo, 1998-1999 -- Aftermaths -- Images of Kosovo -- Further study -- Notes -- Genocide in Bangladesh -- 9 Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region -- The African Great Lakes countries in regional context -- Rwanda, 1994: horror and shame -- Background to genocide -- Genocidal frenzy -- Congo and Africa's "first world war". |
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1996-1997: The "genocide of the camps" -- The Second Congo war -- The Burundian imbroglio -- Great Lakes aftermaths -- Further study -- Notes -- Darfur, South Sudan, South Kordofan -- Photo Essay -- Part 3 Social Science Perspectives -- 10 Psychological Perspectives -- Narcissism, greed, fear, humiliation -- Narcissism -- Greed -- Fear -- Humiliation -- The psychology of perpetrators -- The Milgram experiments -- The Stanford prison experiments -- The psychology of rescuers -- Further study -- Notes -- 11 The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide -- Introduction -- Sociological perspectives -- The sociology of modernity -- Ethnicity and ethnic conflict -- Ethnic conflict and violence "specialists" -- "Middleman minorities" -- Anthropological perspectives -- Further study -- Notes -- 12 Political Science and International Relations -- Empirical investigations -- The changing face of war -- Democracy, war, and genocide/democide -- Norms and prohibition regimes -- Further study -- Notes -- 13 Gendering Genocide -- Gendercide vs. root-and-branch genocide -- Women as genocidal targets -- Gendercidal institutions -- Genocidal men, genocidal women -- A note on gendered propaganda -- Further study -- Notes -- Part 4 The Future of Genocide -- 14 Memory, Forgetting, and Denial -- Contested memories: three cases -- I. Germany -- II. Japan -- III. Argentina -- Forgetting -- Genocide denial: Motives and strategies -- Denial and free speech -- Further study -- Notes -- 15 Justice, Truth, and Redress -- Leipzig, Constantinople, Nuremberg, Tokyo -- The international criminal tribunals: Yugoslavia and Rwanda -- Juridical contributions -- National trials -- The "mixed tribunals": Cambodia and Sierra Leone -- Another kind of justice: Rwanda's gacaca experiment -- The Pinochet case -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) -- International citizens' tribunals. |
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Truth and reconciliation -- The challenge of redress -- The role of apology -- Further study -- Notes -- 16 Strategies of Intervention and Prevention -- Warning signs -- Humanitarian intervention -- Sanctions -- The United Nations -- When is military intervention justified? -- A standing "peace army"? -- Ideologies and individuals -- The role of the honest witness -- Ideologies, religious and secular -- Personal responsibility -- Conclusion -- Further study -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost All EBSCO eBooks |
| Subject |
Genocide.
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Genocide. |
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Genocide -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Subject |
89.58 political violence. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes. |
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Völkermord. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Adam, 1963- Genocide. Third edition. Abingdon, Oxon ; NewYork, NY : Routledge, 2016 9781138780439 (DLC) 2016025350 (OCoLC)956633357 |
| ISBN |
9781317533863 (electronic book) |
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1317533860 (electronic book) |
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9781317533856 (electronic book) |
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1317533852 (electronic book) |
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9781138780439 |
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113878043X |
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9781138823846 |
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1138823848 |
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9781315725390 (ebook) |
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1317533844 |
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1317533852 |
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9781317533849 (Mobipocket ebook) |
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1315725398 |
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1317533844 (Mobipocket ebook) |
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9781315725390 |
| Standard No. |
99976038562 |
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