The new edition of this market-leading textbook includes a revised introduction and updated chapters with new research and insights. Four new case studies of twenty-first-century genocides bring this horrific history up to the present moment: the genocide perpetrated by the government during Argentina's "Dirty War," the genocide of the Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), genocidal violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar, and China's genocide of the Uyghurs. Powerful survivor testimonies bring the essays to life and help readers grapple with the difficult lessons presented throughout the book.
The new edition of this market-leading textbook includes a revised introduction and updated chapters with new research and insights. Four new case studies of twenty-first-century genocides bring this horrific history up to the present moment: the genocide perpetrated by the government during Argentina's "Dirty War," the genocide of the Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), genocidal violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar, and China's genocide of the Uyghurs. Powerful survivor testimonies bring the essays to life and help readers grapple with the difficult lessons presented throughout the book.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Samuel Totten
1. The Genocide of California’s Yana Indians
Benjamin Madley
2. Genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa,
1904–1907
Dominik J. Schaller
3. The Armenian Genocide
Rouben P. Adalian
4. Soviet Manmade Famine in Ukraine
James Mace
5. The Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, and the Handicapped
Donald L. Niewyk
6. Genocide in Bangladesh
Rounaq Jahan
7. Genocide in Cambodia
Craig Etcheson
8. The Genocide Perpetrated by the Government of Argentina
(1976–1983)
Natasha Zaretsky
9. Guatemala: Acts of Genocide, Scorched-Earth Counterinsurgency
War, and the Long Search for Justice
Susanne Jonas
10. The Anfal Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan
Michiel Leezenberg
11. The 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
Gerald Caplan
12. Genocidal Violence in the Former Yugoslavia: Bosnia
Herzegovina
Martin Mennecke
13. The Darfur Genocide
Samuel Totten
14. ISIS’s Genocide of the Yazidis
Samuel Totten
15. Genocidal Violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar
Ken MacLean
16. China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs
Samuel Totten
Afterword
Samuel Totten
Appendices
Appendix I. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide
Appendix II. List of Crimes against Humanity
Appendix III. Summary of the Concept of the Responsibility to Protect
Appendix IV. A Select List of Films about Individual Genocides
Appendix V. Table of Contents of Earlier Editions of Century of Genocide and Centuries of Genocide
Index
Samuel Totten is a scholar of genocide studies and professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas.
" Centuries of Genocide uniquely combines cutting-edge scholarship
on more than fifteen historical cases of genocide with deeply
humanizing - and impactful - first-hand accounts of their victims
and survivors. Updated to now include critical cases of genocide
that have unfolded in the twenty-first century, this new edition
remains an essential teaching text in the field by offering
undergraduate and graduate students a comprehensive comparative
analysis of the causes and impacts of genocidal violence while
engaging with potential strategies for its future
prevention."--Nevin T. Aiken, University of Wyoming
"Moments of genocide in history often get lost in numbers of dead,
brief us/them narratives, and misrepresentations of out-of-control
evil. It is too easy to forget that the lives lost were individuals
and communities - all with unique beliefs, dreams, and families.
Centuries of Genocide provides analysis of various large-scale
genocidal atrocities but also includes eyewitness accounts,
testimony, and reflections, which humanize the victims of seemingly
inhuman mass destructiveness." --Linda M. Woolf, Webster
University
"After centuries of indifference and inaction towards genocide, it
is time to get serious about preventing such atrocities. Knowledge
is the first step toward caring enough to act. This comprehensive
and authoritative volume will motivate scholars, activists, and
public officials to take that step, cognizant of the challenges
that must be overcome to effectively confront this stain on
humanity."--c
"The fifth edition of this classic textbook includes updates on
previously acknowledged genocides, such as of Armenians,
Jewish-Europeans, Cambodians, and Rwandans, while bringing
attention to important ongoing cases. Essays and accounts focus on
victims, governments, militaries, and militias such as in
settler-era California, the Cold War regimes of Argentina, juntas
of Myanmar, and others which, with Totten's new additions on ISIS
and China, make this a comprehensive collection." --Christopher
Harrison, Northern Arizona University
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