Genocide In The Age Of The Nation State

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857712882

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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 of its nature 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. In an original and compelling argument, Levene seeks to explain how state violence against a range of groups has emerged in tandem with the rise of the West to global dominance and the emergence of increasingly streamlined, homogenous states. Levene contends that it is in the relationship of these nation-states to each other that we will find the well-springs of some of the most poisonous tendencies in the modern world. Thought provoking and beautifully constructed, The Meaning of Genocide is the first of a major four-volume survey, Genocide in the Age of the Nation State, which examines its subject within an extensive global and historical framework and which will become the definitive work on the subject.

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 1845111958

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Genocide in the Age of the Nation State by Mark Levene Pdf

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1850437521

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Genocide in the Age of the Nation State by Mark Levene Pdf

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? This is the first book to consider the phenomenon within a broad context of world historical development. In this first volume of a major four-volume survey, Mark Levene sets out the conceptual issues in the study of genocide and the historical linkage between the rise of the West, in both its modern and early modern domestic and colonial settings, and increasing tendencies to physically annihilate native peoples or religiously heterodox communal groups who stood as obstacles in its path.

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857712899

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Genocide in the Age of the Nation State by Mark Levene Pdf

Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth-century phenomenon. In The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide, Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. It was European expansion into all hemispheres between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided the main stimulus to its pre-1914 manifestations. One critical outcome, on the cusp of modernity, was the French revolutionary destruction of the Vendée. Levene finishes this volume at the 1914 watershed with the destabilising effects of the 'rise of the West' on older Ottoman, Chinese, Russian and Austrian empires. "Very impressive" - Eric Hobsbawm

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1845117522

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Genocide in the Age of the Nation State by Mark Levene Pdf

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? Genocide in the Age of the Nation State 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. Genocide in the Age of the Nation State 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.

Author : Mark Levene (jurist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:66469701

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Genocide in the Age of the Nation State by Mark Levene (jurist) Pdf

Author : Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691205144

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A World Divided by Eric D. Weitz Pdf

A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably develop together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the eighteenth century, nationalists have established states that grant human rights to some people while excluding others, setting the stage for many of today’s problems, from the refugee crisis to right-wing nationalism. Only the advance of international human rights will move us beyond a world divided between those who have rights and those who don't.

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 1845111931

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The Meaning of Genocide by Mark Levene Pdf

The years 1914-1945 are commonly thought of as the era of genocide in Europe. This title examines the wartime collapse of the old European empires and the succeeding geopolitical struggles for the contested eastern European or near-European rimlands - multiethnic regions marked down for lethal homogenisation.

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845442210

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Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide by Mark Levene Pdf

Author : Mark Levene
Publisher : Crisis of Genocide
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0198791690

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Devastation by Mark Levene Pdf

From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia, and a host of further ethnic cleansings in Anatolia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Crisis of Genocide seeks to integrate these genocidal events into a single, coherent history. Over two volumes, Mark Levene demonstrates how the relationship between geography, nation, and power came to play a key role in the emergence of genocide in a collapsed or collapsing European imperial zone - the Rimlands - and how the continuing geopolitical contest for control of these Eastern European or near-European regions destabilised relationships between diverse and multifaceted ethnic communities who traditionally had lived side by side. An emergent pattern of toxicity can also be seen in the struggles for regional dominance as pursued by post-imperial states, nation-states, and would-be states. Volume I: Devastation covers the period from 1912 to 1938. It is divided into two parts, the first associated with the prelude to, actuality of, and aftermath of the Great War and imperial collapse, the second the period of provisional 'New Europe' reformulation as well as post-imperial Stalinist, Nazi - and Kemalist - consolidation up to 1938. Levene also explores the crystallisation of truly toxic anti-Jewish hostilities, the implication being that the immediate origins of the Jewish genocides in the Second World War are to be found in the First.

Author : Samantha Power
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465050895

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"A ""A Problem From Hell"" by Samantha Power Pdf

A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans.

Author : Katharine Knox,Tony Kushner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136313264

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Refugees in an Age of Genocide by Katharine Knox,Tony Kushner Pdf

This is a study of the history of global refugee movements over the 20th century, ranging from east European Jews fleeing Tsarist oppression at the turn of the century to asylum seekers from the former Zaire and Yugoslavia. Recognizing that the problem of refugees is a universal one, the authors emphasize the human element which should be at the forefront of both the study of refugees and responses to them.

Author : Michael Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0521538548

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The Dark Side of Democracy by Michael Mann Pdf

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Author : Richard H. King,Dan Stone
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845455897

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Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History by Richard H. King,Dan Stone Pdf

Hannah Arendt first argued the continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. This text uses Arendt's insights as a starting point for further investigations into the ways in which race, imperialism, slavery and genocide are linked.

Author : Daniel Feierstein
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813563190

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Genocide as Social Practice by Daniel Feierstein Pdf

Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He finds similarities, not in the extent of the horror but in terms of the goals of the perpetrators. The Nazis resorted to ruthless methods in part to stifle dissent but even more importantly to reorganize German society into a Volksgemeinschaft, or people’s community, in which racial solidarity would supposedly replace class struggle. The situation in Argentina echoes this. After seizing power in 1976, the Argentine military described its own program of forced disappearances, torture, and murder as a “process of national reorganization” aimed at remodeling society on “Western and Christian” lines. For Feierstein, genocide can be considered a technology of power—a form of social engineering—that creates, destroys, or reorganizes relationships within a given society. It influences the ways in which different social groups construct their identity and the identity of others, thus shaping the way that groups interrelate. Feierstein establishes continuity between the “reorganizing genocide” first practiced by the Nazis in concentration camps and the more complex version—complex in terms of the symbolic and material closure of social relationships —later applied in Argentina. In conclusion, he speculates on how to construct a political culture capable of confronting and resisting these trends. First published in Argentina, in Spanish, Genocide as Social Practice has since been translated into many languages, now including this English edition. The book provides a distinctive and valuable look at genocide through the lens of Latin America as well as Europe.