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Gellately, Robert ; & Kiernan, Ben ; editors: - The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, x,396 pp. Minor rubbing. Light bump to spine. VG. ¶ Contents: Genocide and Modernity: 20th century genocides: underlying ideological themes from Armenia to East Timor; The modernity of genocides: war, race, and revolution in the 20th century; Seeking the roots of modern genocide: on the macro- and micro-history of mass murder; Genocide and the body politic in the time of modernity; Indigenous Peoples and Colonial Issues: Indigenous peoples genocide: rhetoric of human rights; Military culture and the production of 'final solutions' in the colonies: the example of Wilhelminian Germany; East Timor: counter-insurgency and genocide; The Era of the Two World Wars: Under cover of war: the Armenian genocide in the context of total war; The mechanism of a mass crime: the ' great terror' in the Soviet Union, 1937-1938; The Third Reich, the Holocaust and visions of serial genocide; Reflections on modern Japanese history in the context of the concept of 'genocide'; Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1945: 'When the world turned to chaos': 1965 and its aftermath in Bali, Indonesia; Genocide in Cambodia and Ethiopia; Modern genocide in Rwanda: ideology, revolution, war, and mass murder in an African state; History, motive, law, intent: combining historical and legal methods in understanding Guatemala's 1981-1983 genocide; Analysis of a mass crime: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, 1991-1999...
USD 69.00 [Appr.: EURO 64.25 | £UK 55.25 | JP¥ 10555] Book number BOOKS014483I

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