New Books in Genocide Studies
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Maureen S. Hiebert, "Constructing Genocide and ...
How can this happen? If there's any question that people interested in genocide ask, it's this one.
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David Gaunt, "Let Them Not Return" (Berghahn Bo...
The book functions in some ways like an invitation—an invitation to learn something about peoples and suffering about which we know little,..
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Tsega Etefa, "The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in...
Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds?
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Reinhart Kössler, "Namibia and Germany: Negotia...
Only in 2015, 100 years after the end of formal German rule, has the German government begun to atone for the Herero/Nama genocide...
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David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers ...
Slucki’s memoir blends the scholarly and literary, grounding the story of his grandfather and father in the broader context of the twentieth century...
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James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
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Liat Steir-Livny, "Remaking Holocaust Memory: D...
Steir-Livny analyzes 19 prominent films that reflect the key tendencies of third-generation Holocaust documentaries...
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Erik Sjöberg, "The Making of the Greek Genocide...
Sjöberg is interested in the violence and expulsion of ethnic Greeks from Anatolia before, during and especially after World War One...
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Carolyn J. Dean, "The Moral Witness: Trials and...
Dean examines the cultural history of the idea of the “witness to genocide” in Western Europe and the United States...
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Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing...
Chamberlin reminds us that the Cold War was not at all Cold for hundreds of millions of people...
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Jennifer Dixon, "Dark Pasts: Changing the State...
Dixon investigates the Japanese and Turkish states’ narratives of their “dark pasts,” the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) and Armenian Genocide (1915-17), respectively...
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Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a ...
A necessary volume for understanding the influence of World War I on Hitler’s thinking, this work is also an eye-opening reappraisal of major events like the invasion of Russia and the battle for Normandy...
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Andrew Wallis, "Stepp’d in Blood: Akazu and th...
Andrew Wallis has published a significant new survey of the origins and aftermath of the genocide....
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Henning Pieper, "Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genoci...
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a dual role: SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front...
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Op...
In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...
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Amit Pinchevski, "Transmitted Wounds: Media and...
What does it mean to consider trauma and media from the perspective of technology and not from that of the subject of trauma, the clinician or the witness?
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Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the E...
In creating a detailed impression of the medieval race-making that would be reconfigured into the biological racism of the modern era, Heng reaches beyond medievalists and race-studies scholars to anyone interested in the long history of race.
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Susan Thomson, "Rwanda: From Genocide to Precar...
Thomson examines the postwar history of Rwanda to consider the ways the Rwandan genocide shaped governance, policy and memory in that country...
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Daniel Unowsky, “The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jew...
Unowsky tries to understand how, in an Empire built around the idea of the rule of law, anti-Jewish violence could erupt so quickly and then fade away almost as rapidly...
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Special Discussion: Approaches to Textbooks on ...
How do you write a textbook about genocide...
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Daniel Stahl, "Hunt for Nazis: South America's ...
How did the search for Nazi fugitives become a vehicle to oppose South American dictatorships?
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
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Daniel Siemens, "Stormtroopers: A New History o...
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Michael Brenner, “A History of Jews in Germany ...
In A History of Jews in Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Indiana University Press, 2018), edited by Michael Brenner, Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel...
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Shannon Fogg, “Stealing Home: Looting, Restitut...
While the history of the Second World War and Jewish persecution in France has been widely studied, the return of survivors in the aftermath of deportation and genocide has not received sufficient attention. With Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution,
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