The new edition of this market-leading textbook includes a revised introduction and updated chapters with new research and insights. Four new case studies of twenty-first-century genocides bring this horrific history up to the present moment: the genocide perpetrated by the government during Argentina’s "Dirty War," the genocide of the Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), genocidal violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar, and China’s genocide of the Uyghurs. Powerful survivor testimonies bring the essays to life and help readers grapple with the difficult lessons presented throughout the book.

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The fifth edition of Centuries of Genocide combines highly informative essays on major genocides with powerful first-person survivor testimonies.

Dedication
Acknowledgements

Introduction
Samuel Totten

1. The Genocide of California’s Yana Indians
Benjamin Madley

2. Genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, 1904–1907
Dominik J. Schaller

3. The Armenian Genocide
Rouben P. Adalian

4. Soviet Manmade Famine in Ukraine
James Mace

5. The Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, and the Handicapped
Donald L. Niewyk

6. Genocide in Bangladesh
Rounaq Jahan

7. Genocide in Cambodia 
Craig Etcheson

8. The Genocide Perpetrated by the Government of Argentina (1976–1983)
Natasha Zaretsky

9. Guatemala: Acts of Genocide, Scorched-Earth Counterinsurgency War, and the Long Search for Justice
Susanne Jonas

10. The Anfal Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan
Michiel Leezenberg

11. The 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
Gerald Caplan

12. Genocidal Violence in the Former Yugoslavia: Bosnia Herzegovina 
Martin Mennecke

13. The Darfur Genocide
Samuel Totten

14. ISIS’s Genocide of the Yazidis
Samuel Totten

15. Genocidal Violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar
Ken MacLean

16. China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs
Samuel Totten

Afterword
Samuel Totten

Appendices

Appendix I. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide

Appendix II. List of Crimes against Humanity

Appendix III. Summary of the Concept of the Responsibility to Protect

Appendix IV. A Select List of Films about Individual Genocides

Appendix V. Table of Contents of Earlier Editions of Century of Genocide and Centuries of Genocide

Index

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"Centuries of Genocide uniquely combines cutting-edge scholarship on more than fifteen historical cases of genocide with deeply humanizing – and impactful – first-hand accounts of their victims and survivors. Updated to now include critical cases of genocide that have unfolded in the twenty-first century, this new edition remains an essential teaching text in the field by offering undergraduate and graduate students a comprehensive comparative analysis of the causes and impacts of genocidal violence while engaging with potential strategies for its future prevention."
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487525354
Publisert
2022-09-19
Utgiver
University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press
Vekt
940 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
38 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
277

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Samuel Totten is a scholar of genocide studies and professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas.