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The Oxford handbook of genocide studies / edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses.

Contributor(s): Bloxham, Donald | Moses, A. DirkMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Oxford handbooksPublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2010. Description: xiii, 675 p. ; 26 cmISBN: 0199232113; 9780199232116Uniform titles: Oxford handbooks online Subject(s): GenocideGenre/Form: Handbooks and manuals | Handboeken (vorm)DDC classification: 364 LOC classification: HV6322.7 | .O94 2010
Contents:
Raphael Lemkin, culture, and the concept of genocide / A. Dirk Moses -- 'Ethnic cleaning' versus genocide? / Benjamin Lieberman -- Gender and genocide / Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey -- The state and genocide / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Genocide and memory / Dan Stone -- The law and genocide / William A. Schabas -- Sociology and genocide / Martin Shaw -- Political science and genocide / Scott Straus -- Anthropology and genocide / Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- Social psychology and genocide / Paul A. Roth -- Philosophy and genocide / Martin Shuster -- Genocide in the ancient world / Hans Van Wees -- Early Medieval Europe : the case of Britain and Ireland / James E. Fraser -- Central and late Medieval Europe / Len Scales -- Colonial Latin America / Nicolas A. Robins -- Rethinking genocide in North America / Gregory D. Smithers -- Genocide and mass violence in the 'Heart of darkness' : Africa in the colonial period / Dominik J. Schaller -- Genocide at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire / Hilmar Kaiser -- Mass deportations, ethnic cleansing, and genocidal politics in the later Russian empire and the USSR / Nicolas Werth -- The Nazi empire / Christopher R. Browning -- Twentieth-century China : ethnic assimilation and intergroup violence / Uradyn E. Bulag -- Political genocides in postcolonial Asia / Robert Cribb -- State-sponsored violence and secessionist rebellions in Asia / Geoffrey Robinson -- National security doctrine in Latin America : the genocide question / Daniel Feierstein -- Genocide and population displacement in post-communist Eastern Europe / Cathie Carmichael -- Genocidal warfare in North-East Africa / Alex de Waal -- War and genocide in Africa's Great Lakes since independence / Omar McDoom -- The United Nations, the Cold War, and its legacy / Gerd Hankel -- Military intervention / Alex J. Bellamy -- Punishment as prevention? The politics of prosecuting génocidaires / Donald Bloxham, Devin O. Pendas -- From past to future : prospects for genocide and its avoidance in the twenty-first century / Mark Levene.
Summary: This book subjects both genocide and genocide studies to systematic, in-depth analysis. 34 renowned experts study genocide world-wide through the ages by taking regional thematic, and interdisciplinary approaches.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Raphael Lemkin, culture, and the concept of genocide / A. Dirk Moses -- 'Ethnic cleaning' versus genocide? / Benjamin Lieberman -- Gender and genocide / Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey -- The state and genocide / Anton Weiss-Wendt -- Genocide and memory / Dan Stone -- The law and genocide / William A. Schabas -- Sociology and genocide / Martin Shaw -- Political science and genocide / Scott Straus -- Anthropology and genocide / Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- Social psychology and genocide / Paul A. Roth -- Philosophy and genocide / Martin Shuster -- Genocide in the ancient world / Hans Van Wees -- Early Medieval Europe : the case of Britain and Ireland / James E. Fraser -- Central and late Medieval Europe / Len Scales -- Colonial Latin America / Nicolas A. Robins -- Rethinking genocide in North America / Gregory D. Smithers -- Genocide and mass violence in the 'Heart of darkness' : Africa in the colonial period / Dominik J. Schaller -- Genocide at the twilight of the Ottoman Empire / Hilmar Kaiser -- Mass deportations, ethnic cleansing, and genocidal politics in the later Russian empire and the USSR / Nicolas Werth -- The Nazi empire / Christopher R. Browning -- Twentieth-century China : ethnic assimilation and intergroup violence / Uradyn E. Bulag -- Political genocides in postcolonial Asia / Robert Cribb -- State-sponsored violence and secessionist rebellions in Asia / Geoffrey Robinson -- National security doctrine in Latin America : the genocide question / Daniel Feierstein -- Genocide and population displacement in post-communist Eastern Europe / Cathie Carmichael -- Genocidal warfare in North-East Africa / Alex de Waal -- War and genocide in Africa's Great Lakes since independence / Omar McDoom -- The United Nations, the Cold War, and its legacy / Gerd Hankel -- Military intervention / Alex J. Bellamy -- Punishment as prevention? The politics of prosecuting génocidaires / Donald Bloxham, Devin O. Pendas -- From past to future : prospects for genocide and its avoidance in the twenty-first century / Mark Levene.

This book subjects both genocide and genocide studies to systematic, in-depth analysis. 34 renowned experts study genocide world-wide through the ages by taking regional thematic, and interdisciplinary approaches.