Genocide: a comprehensive introduction

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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity's enduring blights.

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Full title :Genocide : a comprehensive introduction / by Adam Jones.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016.
Edition:Third edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxviii, 839 pages) : : illustrations, maps.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317533863, 1317533860, 9781317533856, 1317533852, 9781317533849, 1315725398, 1317533844, 9781315725390
oclc:ocn965825931
LC Classification:HV6322.7
Dewey Decimal:304.6/63

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Overview -- 1 The Origins of Genocide -- Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity -- The Vendée uprising -- Zulu genocide -- Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin -- Defining genocide: The UN Convention -- Bounding genocide: Comparative genocide studies -- Discussion -- What is destroyed in genocide? -- Multiple and overlapping identities -- Dynamism and contingency -- The question of genocidal intent -- Contested cases of genocide -- Atlantic slavery-and after -- Area bombing and nuclear warfare -- The Biafra war -- UN sanctions against Iraq -- 9/11: Terrorism as genocide? -- Structural and institutional violence -- Is genocide ever justified? -- Further study -- Notes -- 2 State and Empire -- War and Revolution -- The state, imperialism, and genocide -- Imperial famines -- The Congo "rubber terror" -- The Japanese in East and Southeast Asia -- The US in Indochina -- The Soviets in Afghanistan -- Imperial ascent and dissolution -- Genocide and war -- The First World War and the dawn of industrial death -- The Second World War and the "…