OXF HANDB GENOCIDE STUDIES OHBK P

Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America Africa and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years the discipline of ''genocide studies'' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension.The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the first book to subject both genocide and the young discipline it has spawned to systematic in-depth investigation. Thirty-four renowned experts study genocide through the ages by taking regional thematic and disciplinary-specific approaches. Chapters examine secessionist and political genocides in modern Asia. Others treat the violent dynamics of European colonialism in Africa the complex ethnic geography of the Great Lakes region and the structural instability of the continent''s northern horn. South and North America receive detailed coverage as do the Ottoman Empire Nazi-occupied Europe and post-communist Eastern Europe. Sustained attention is paid to themes like gender memory the state culture ethnic cleansing military intervention the United Nations and prosecutions.The work is multi-disciplinary featuring the work of historians anthropologists lawyers political scientists sociologists and philosophers.Uniquely combining empirical reconstruction and conceptual analysis this Handbook presents and analyses regions of genocide and the entire field of ''genocide studies'' in one substantial volume.