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Long download timeVoix de: Multiple ReadersPublisher:Crane Library, 2015
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- Author: Jones, AdamDate:Created2013Summary:
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. Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this new Written in clear and lively prose, liberally sprinkled with over 100 illustrations and maps, and including personal testimonies from genocide survivors, A Comprehensive Introduction has established itself as the core textbook of the new generation of genocide scholarship. An accompanying website features a broad selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources.
Contents:- The origins of genocide
- State and empire, war and revolution
- Genocides of indigenous peoples
- The Ottoman destruction of Christian minorities
- Stalin and Mao
- The Jewish holocaust
- Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
- Bosnia and Kosovo
- Apocalypse in Rwanda
- Psychological perspectives
- The sociology and anthropology of genocide
- Political science and international relations
- Gendering genocide
- Memory, forgetting, and denial
- Justice, truth, and redress
- Strategies of intervention and prevention.
Sujets: Case studies | Genocide | International crimesOriginal Publisher: London, RoutledgeLanguage(s): English