Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Adam Jones

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 680
• 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

Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 10
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 16
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 22
Preface......Page 25
Acknowledgments......Page 33
PART 1: OVERVIEW......Page 36
CHAPTER 1: The Origins of Genocide......Page 38
CHAPTER 2: State and Empire; War and Revolution......Page 99
PART 2: CASES......Page 138
CHAPTER 3: Genocides of Indigenous Peoples......Page 140
CHAPTER 4: The Ottoman Destruction of Christian Minorities......Page 184
CHAPTER 5: Stalin and Mao......Page 223
CHAPTER 6: The Jewish Holocaust......Page 268
CHAPTER 7: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge......Page 318
CHAPTER 8: Bosnia and Kosovo......Page 352
CHAPTER 9: Apocalypse in Rwanda......Page 381
PART 3: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES......Page 416
CHAPTER 10: Psychological Perspectives......Page 418
CHAPTER 11: The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide......Page 458
CHAPTER 12: Political Science and International Relations......Page 481
CHAPTER 13: Gendering Genocide......Page 499
PART 4: THE FUTURE OF GENOCIDE......Page 534
CHAPTER 14: Memory, Forgetting, and Denial......Page 536
CHAPTER 15: Justice, Truth, and Redress......Page 567
CHAPTER 16: Strategies of Intervention and Prevention......Page 602
INDEX......Page 646