The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies
Edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses
Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies subjects both genocide and the discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. 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. Thirty-four articles chart genocide through the ages by taking regional, thematic, and disciplinary-specific approaches. Articles 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.
Keywords:
colonial America,
Horn of Africa,
Holocaust,
political genocide,
modern Asia,
European colonialism,
Nazi-occupied Europe,
ethnic cleansing,
military intervention,
United Nations
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Apr 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199232116
- Published online:
- Sep 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.001.0001
Editors
Donald Bloxham,
editor
Donald Bloxham is Professor of Modern History at Edinburgh University, and works on the perpetration, punishment and representation of genocide. He is author of The Final Solution: A Genocide (2009), The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (2005), which won the 2007 Raphael Lemkin prize for genocide scholarship, Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory (2001), all published by Oxford University Press, and is co-author of The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (2005) with Tony Kushner.
A. Dirk Moses,
editor
A. Dirk Moses is Professor of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence, and Associate Professor in History at the University of Sydney. He is author of German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007), Colonialism and Genocide (2007, with Dan Stone), Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History (2008) and The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies (2010, with Donald Bloxham). He is an editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.
