Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction

✍ Scribed by Adam Jones

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 457
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An invaluable introduction to the subject of genocide, explaining its history from pre-modern times to the present day, with a wide variety of case studies.

Recent events in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor and Iraq have demonstrated with appalling clarity that the threat of genocide is still a major issue within world politics. The book examines the differing interpretations of genocide from psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science and analyzes the influence of race, ethnicity, nationalism and gender on genocides. In the final section, the author examines how we punish those responsible for waging genocide and how the international community can prevent further bloodshed.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 14
About the Author......Page 16
Introduction......Page 19
Part One: Overview......Page 28
1. The Origins of Genocide......Page 30
2. Imperialism, War, and Social Revolution......Page 66
Part 2 Cases......Page 92
3. Genocides of Indigenous Peoples......Page 94
4. The Armenian Genocide......Page 128
5. Stalin's Terror......Page 151
6. The Jewish Holocaust......Page 174
7. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge......Page 212
8. Bosnia and Kosovo......Page 239
9. Holocaust in Rwanda......Page 259
Part 3 Social Science Perspectives......Page 286
10. Psychological Perspectives......Page 288
11. The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide......Page 315
12. Political Science and International Relations......Page 334
13. Gendering Genocide......Page 352
Part 4 The Future of Genocide......Page 370
14. Memory, Forgetting, and Denial......Page 372
15. Justice, Truth, and Redress......Page 389
16. Strategies of Intervention and Prevention......Page 415
Index......Page 437