"Chronic Hindu-Muslim rioting in India has created a situation in which communal violence is both so normal and so varied in its manifestations that it would seem to defy effective analysis. Paul R. Brass, one of the world's preeminent experts on South Asia, has tracked more tha…
Introduction : Screen media and witnessing publics. - To acquaint America with ravished Armenia. - Witness for the prosecution : films at Nuremberg. - Reflections on the world stage : imagining fields of witnessing for Rwanda and the Balkans. - The work of WITNESS : negotiating …
Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development. This multi-authored volume seeks new interpretations and …
Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiou…
As collective violence erupts in many regions throughout the world, we often hear media reports that link the outbreaks to age-old ethnic or religious hostilities, thereby freeing the state, its agents, and its political elites from responsibility. Paul Brass encourages us to lo…
Les tueries de 1994 au Rwanda ne doivent pas faire oublier les massacres antérieurs dans ce pays, ni les événements tout aussi tragiques qui ont endeuillé le Burundi en 1965, en l 972, en 1988, en 1991, en 1993. Et malheureusement nul ne doute que ces conflits, se nourrissant le…
The dissolution of Yugoslavia inspired F.G. Bailey to consider the relations among ethnic groups that had seemed reconciled to living together and then broke into murderous conflicts. For his exploration of the ancient, recurring problem of ethnic strife, Bailey considers the vi…