Genocide, mass murder and human rights abuses are arguably the most perplexing and deeply troubling aspects of recent world history. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and Imperial Japan. Several authors explore colonialism and address the fate of the ...
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Genocide, mass murder and human rights abuses are arguably the most perplexing and deeply troubling aspects of recent world history. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and Imperial Japan. Several authors explore colonialism and address the fate of the indigenous peoples in Africa, North America, and Australia. As well, there is extensive coverage of the post-1945 period, including the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Bali, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, East Timor, and Guatemala. The book emphasizes the importance of comparative analysis and theoretical discussion, and it raises new questions about the difficult challenges for modernity constituted by genocide and other mass crimes.
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Good. Book Octavo, softcover, shows light wear to red and black pictorial wraps and some highlighting else good. collection of essays giving a comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century ~ Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and Imperial Japan. and also Yugoslavia, Bali, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, East Timor, and Guatemala. 396 pp. including index.
The book offers a compendium of essays an opinions of different events that had in common the factor of violence . The majority of the authors does not make any effort to elaborate or expand the controversial definition of genocide. But instead they make a titanic effort to understand pass events as the colonization for mentioning one, with concept of genocide that is a modern one. The study made by the editor are marked with a deep sense of moral and ethic responsibility , without loosing the historical perspective.
