Centuries of genocide [electronic resource] : essays and eyewitness accounts / edited by Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons.

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TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2012.Edition: 4th edDescription: 1 online resource (608 p.)ISBN:

1283607204
9781283607209
9786613919656
6613919659
1135245517
9781135245511
0203867815
9780203867815

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History

Additional physical formats: No title; No titleLOC classification:

HV6322.7 C32

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University of Alberta Access (Unlimited Concurrent Users) from Ebook Central Academic Complete

Contents:

Front Cover; Centuries of Genocide; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Maps; Editors and Contributors; Introduction: Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons; 1.The Genocide of California's Yana Indians: Ben Madley; 2.Genocide in Australia: Colin Tatz; 3.The Genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, 1904-1907: Dominik J. Schaller; 4.The Armenian Genocide: Rouben P. Adalian; 5.Soviet Man-made Famine in Ukraine: James E. Mace; 6.The Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, and the Handicapped: Donald L. Niewyk; 7.Genocide in Bangladesh: Rounaq Jahan; 8.Genocide in East Timor: James Dunn

9.The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979: Ben Kiernan10.Guatemala: Acts of Genocide and Scorched-earth Counterinsurgency War: Susanne Jonas; 11.The Anfal Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan: Michiel Leezenberg; 12.The Nuba Mountains, Sudan: Alex De Waal; 13.The 1994 Genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda: Gerald Caplan; 14.Genocidal Violence in the Former Yugoslavia: Bosnia Herzegovina: Martin Mennecke; 15.Genocide in Darfur, Sudan: Samuel Totten; Appendix: UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; Index

Summary: The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The book is framed by an introductory essay that spells out definitional issues, as well as the promises, complexities, and barriers to the prevention and intervention of genocide.To help the reader learn about the similarities and differences among the various.

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Includes index.

The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The book is framed by an introductory essay that spells out definitional issues, as well as the promises, complexities, and barriers to the prevention and intervention of genocide.To help the reader learn about the similarities and differences among the various.

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