ISBN:
9780857712882
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 266 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Genocide in the age of the nation state volume 1
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Levene, Mark, 1953- The meaning of Genocide
DDC:
304.663
Keywords:
Völkermord
Abstract:
How should we understand genocide in the modern world? As an aberration from the norms of a dominant liberal international society? Or rather as a guide to the very dysfunctional nature of the international system itself? The Meaning of Genocide is the first work to consider the phenomenon within a broad context of world historical development. In this book, Mark Levene sets out the conceptual issues in the study of genocide, addressing the fundamental problems of defining genocide and understanding what we mean by perpetrators and victims, before placing the phenomenon in the context of world history. The Meaning of Genocide is the first of a major four-volume survey which examines its subject within an extensive global and historical framework and which will become the definitive work on the subject._x000D_ _x000D_ 'A wide-ranging discourse on the innumerable difficulties in coming to terms with the many ambiguities of the term [genocide]. The book is marked by a high level of intelligence and wide-ranging knowledge.'_x000D_ Times Higher Educational Supplement_x000D_ _x000D_ 'Superb…clearly and convincingly explained, it is in the analysis of a burgeoning international system whose expansion, consolidation and underlying logic lead to such crisis moments that this work is at its most penetratingly original and disconcerting.' Donald Bloxham, European History Quarterly_x000D_ _x000D_ 'Very impressive.' Eric Hobsbawm _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_.
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