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Mass Violence in Modern History


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Despite the horrors of nineteenth century conflicts including the US Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars, it was not until the twentieth century that mass killing was conducted on an industrialized scale. While the trenches of Flanders and the atomic bomb were major manifestations of this, mass violence often occurred outside the context of conventional war or away from the traditional battlefield. Research has understandably tended to focus on major events and often within a binary superpower narrative. In fact, instances of mass violence are often hard to pin down as well as being little known, and involving civilians and citizens of a wider range of territories than is publicized. The books in this series shed light on mass violence in the modern era, from Armenia to Rwanda; from Belarus to Bosnia-Herzegovina and many points in between.

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Gender and Genocide in Cambodia Surviving Khmer Rouge

Gender and Genocide in Cambodia: Surviving Khmer Rouge

1st Edition

By Azra Rashid
October 31, 2023

This book explores the multiplicity of women’s experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge. The dominant discourses of genocide often speak from a patriarchal and national perspective, rendering women speechless, and yet in this volume, the female survivors of...

Critical Approaches to Genocide History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915

Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915

1st Edition

Edited By Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek, Ronald Grigor Suny
September 28, 2023

The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust; yet, other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide. ...

The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and its Aftermath (1908-1923)

The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and its Aftermath (1908-1923)

1st Edition

Edited By Taner Akçam, Theodosios Kyriakidis, Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis
January 31, 2023

During the twilight years of the Ottoman Empire, the ethnic tensions between the minority populations within the empire led to the administration carrying out a systematic destruction of the Armenian people. This not only brought 2,000 years of Armenian civilisation within Anatolia to an end but ...

Conceptualizing Mass Violence Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations

Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations

1st Edition

Edited By Navras J. Aafreedi, Priya Singh
January 09, 2023

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia...

Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

Remembering Genocides in Central Africa

1st Edition

By Rene Lemarchand
August 01, 2022

Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research in Central Africa, the ...

Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities New Theoretical Perspectives

Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities: New Theoretical Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Fiona Greenland, Fatma Müge Göçek
April 29, 2022

This volume brings together leading sociologists and anthropologists to break new ground in the study of cultural violence. First sketched in Raphael Lemkin’s seminal writings on genocide, and later systematically defined by peace studies scholar Johan Galtung, the concept of cultural violence ...

Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945 Case Studies from Six Countries

Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries

1st Edition

Edited By Eve Monique Zucker, Ben Kiernan
April 19, 2021

This book examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries – Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam – from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide. Featuring cases not ...

The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands The Arc of Civilian Complicity

The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands: The Arc of Civilian Complicity

1st Edition

By Mihai Poliec
June 24, 2019

This volume examines the changing role which ordinary members of society played in the state-sponsored persecution of the Jews in Bukovina and Bessarabia, both during the summer of 1941, when Romania joined the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and beyond. It establishes different patterns of ...

The White Terror Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921

The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921

1st Edition

By Béla Bodó
June 04, 2019

The White Terror was a movement of right-wing militias that for two years actively tracked down, tortured, and murdered members of the Jewish community, as well as former supporters of the short-lived Council Republic in the years following World War I. It can be argued that this example of a ...

Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe

Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica
March 19, 2019

This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the local dimensions of...

Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide

Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide

1st Edition

By Vahagn Avedian
October 12, 2018

Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter? If that is the case, why is it still a topical issue, capable of causing diplomatic rows and heated debates? The short answer would be that the century old Armenian Genocide is much more than a historical question. It emerged as a political ...

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