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The specter of genocide : mass murder in historical perspective /
Leading international experts offer an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analyses of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century and extensive coverage of the post-1945 period - including the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Bali, Cambodia, Ethiopia,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The mass murder and genocide / Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan
- pt. I. Genocide and modernity. Twentieth century genocides: underlying ideological themes from Armenia to East Timor / Ben Kiernan
- The modernity of genocides: war, race, and revolution in the twentieth century / Eric D. Weitz
- Seeking the roots of modern genocide: on the macro- and microhistory of mass murder / Omer Bartov
- Genocide and the body politic in the time of modernity / Marie Fleming
- pt. II. Indigenous peoples and colonial issues. Genocides of indigenous peoples: rhetoric of human rights / Elazar Barkan
- Military culture and the production of "final solutions" in the colonies: the example of Wilhelminian Germany / Isabel V. Hull
- "Encirclement and annihilation": the Indonesian occupation of East Timor / John G. Taylor
- pt. III. The era of the two World Wars. Under cover of war: the Armenian genocide in the context of total war / Jay Winter
- The mechanism of a mass crime: the great terror in the Soviet Union, 1937-1938 / Nicolas Werth
- The Third Reich, the Holocaust and visions of serial genocide / Robert Gellately
- Reflections on modern Japanese history in the context of the concept of genocide / Gavan McCormack
- pt. 4. Genocide and mass murder since 1945. "When the world turned to chaos": 1965 and its aftermath in Bali, Indonesia / Leslie Dwyer and Degung Santikarma
- Genocide in Cambodia and Ethiopia / Edward Kissi
- Modern genocide in Rwanda: ideology, revolution, war, and mass murder in an African state / Robert Melson
- History, motive, law, intent: combining historical and legal methods in understanding Guatemala's 1981-1983 genocide / Greg Grandin
- Analysis of a mass crime: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, 1991-1999 / Jacques Semelin
- Conclusions. Investigating genocide / Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan
- Appendix. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.