War And Genocide

Author : Doris L. Bergen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742557161

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War and Genocide by Doris L. Bergen Pdf

In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, the revised, second edition of War and Genocide discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. In clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide—purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space—and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II. Including first hand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, the book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.

Author : Martin Shaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745697529

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War and Genocide by Martin Shaw Pdf

This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world. Most accounts of war and genocide treat them as separate phenomena. This book thoroughly examines the links between these two most inhuman of human activities. It shows that the generally legitimate business of war and the monstrous crime of genocide are closely related. This is not just because genocide usually occurs in the midst of war, but because genocide is a form of war directed against civilian populations. The book shows how fine the line has been, in modern history, between ‘degenerate war’ involving the mass destruction of civilian populations, and ‘genocide’, the deliberate destruction of civilian groups as such. Written by one of the foremost sociological writers on war, War and Genocide has four main features: an original argument about the meaning and causes of mass killing in the modern world; a guide to the main intellectual resources – military, political and social theories – necessary to understand war and genocide; summaries of the main historical episodes of slaughter, from the trenches of the First World War to the Nazi Holocaust and the killing fields of Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda; practical guides to further reading, courses and websites. This book examines war and genocide together with their opposites, peace and justice. It looks at them from the standpoint of victims as well as perpetrators. It is an important book for anyone wanting to understand – and overcome – the continuing salience of destructive forces in modern society.

Author : Leslie Alan Horvitz,Christopher Catherwood
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438110295

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Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide by Leslie Alan Horvitz,Christopher Catherwood Pdf

Entries address topics related to genocide, crimes against humanity and peace, and human rights violations; profile perpetrators including Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin; and discuss institutions set up to prosecute these crimes in countries around the world.

Author : Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development,Roundtable on "Just War and Genocide" (2000 : Ottawa, Ont.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 0662300645

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Report from the Roundtable on "Just War and Genocide" [electronic Resource] by Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development,Roundtable on "Just War and Genocide" (2000 : Ottawa, Ont.) Pdf

Author : Doctor Adam Jones
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136823

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Genocide, War Crimes and the West by Doctor Adam Jones Pdf

Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes & the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understanding of an important but under-researched dimension: the involvement of the US and other liberal democracies in actions that are conventionally depicted as the exclusive province of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. Many of the authors are eminent scholars and/or renowned activists; in most cases, their contributions are specifically written for this volume. In the opening and closing sections of the book, analytical issues are considered, including questions of responsibility for genocide and war crimes, and institutional responses at both the domestic and international levels. The central section is devoted to an unprecedentedly broad range of original case studies of western involvement, or alleged involvement, in war crimes and genocide. At a moment in history when terrorism has become a near universal focus of public attention, this volume makes clear why the West, as a result of both its historical legacy and contemporary actions, so often excites widespread resentment and opposition throughout the rest of the world.

Author : Doris L. Bergen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1442242280

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War and Genocide by Doris L. Bergen Pdf

Examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Including firsthand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, her book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.

Author : Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786746569

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Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen Pdf

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. Worse Than War gets to the heart of the phenomenon, genocide, that has caused more deaths in the modern world than military conflict. In doing so, it challenges fundamental things we thought we knew about human beings, society, and politics. Drawing on extensive field work and research from around the world, Goldhagen explores the anatomy of genocide—explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them, why they happen so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them. As a great book should, Worse than War seeks to change the way we think and to offer new possibilities for a better world. It tells us how we might at last begin to eradicate this greatest scourge of humankind.

Author : Doris L. Bergen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 074245715X

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War & Genocide by Doris L. Bergen Pdf

Author : Alex J. Kay,Jeff Rutherford,David Stahel
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464079

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Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 by Alex J. Kay,Jeff Rutherford,David Stahel Pdf

Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal practices -- became most obvious. Germany's military aggression and overtly ideological conduct, culminating in genocide against Soviet Jewry and the decimation of the Soviet population through planned starvation and brutal antipartisan policies, distinguished Operation Barbarossa-the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union-from all previous military campaigns in modern European history. This collection of essays, written by young scholars of seven different nationalities, provides readers with the most current interpretations of Germany's military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941. With its breadth and its thematic focus on total war, genocide, and radicalization, this volume fills a considerable gap in English-language literature on Germany's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and the radicalization of World War II during this critical year. Alex J. Kay is the author of Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder: Political and Economic Planning for German Occupation Policy in the Soviet Union, 1940-1941 and is an independent contractor for the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on War Consequences. Jeff Rutherford is assistant professor of history at Wheeling Jesuit University, where he teaches modern European history. David Stahel is the author of Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East and Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East.

Author : Omer Bartov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : 9780195077230

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Mirrors of Destruction by Omer Bartov Pdf

He then examines the pacifist reaction in interwar France to show how it contributed to a climate of collaboration with dictatorship and mass murder.

Author : André Guichaoua
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780299298203

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From War to Genocide by André Guichaoua Pdf

A definitive account and analysis of the evolving genocidal violence in Rwanda in 1994, and of the judicial, political, and diplomatic responses to it.

Author : Muhamed Borogovac
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781524560096

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The War in Bosnia by Muhamed Borogovac Pdf

Boston, November 5, 1995 The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an unheard-of tragedy. Before the eyes of the entire world, a state is being destroyed, and the people (population) of a nation are suffering the genocide and ethnic cleansing. All the principles of humanity, morals, and international rules have been trampled. The question most often asked is, how could that happen today when the genocide committed during World War II is so well known (the Holocaust) and when the international community had the will and the means to protect the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina? The international community has shown that it is not the enemy of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it accepts this state into its membership when it recognized the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on April 7, 1992. With that act, the international community stood up against the Serbian nationalism, which only started to bloody its hands in Bosnia and Herzegovina. So how come that in the fall of 1995, after the innumerable atrocities committed by the Serbs revolted the world, the international community crossed over to the side of the war criminals, giving them 49 percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina with its Dayton peace proposals? Who was the mastermind who succeeded to change the world opinion and what methods did he use? This book answers some of those questions. The reading of this book has to be approached with having faith in no one but a common sense. Besides that, from the reader who comprehends what is truly happening in Bosnia, it is expected that he/she spreads the truth. The ultimate goal is to help in the fight against the forces of betrayal and the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Wishing to arm the Bosnian patriots as soon as possible with the knowledge of what is really happening, this book is being written in a hurry. I still hope that this book will reach Bosnians and friends of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina all over the world before it is too late and while it is still possible to say no to the division of a member of the United Nations.

Author : D. Crowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137037015

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War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice by D. Crowe Pdf

In this sweeping, definitive work, historian David Crowe offers an unflinching account of the long and troubled history of genocide and war crimes. From ancient atrocities to more recent horrors, he traces their disturbing consistency but also the heroic efforts made to break seemingly intractable patterns of violence and retribution.

Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110659054

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Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia by Frank Jacob Pdf

The series Genocide and Mass Violence in the Age of Extremes wants to provide an interdisciplinary forum for research on mass violence and genocide during the "short" 20th century. It will highlight the role of state and non-state actors, the perspectives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, and put violent events of the Age of Extremes in a larger political, social, and most important, cultural context. Anthologies and monographs will provide academic and non-academic readers with a deep insight into and a better understanding for the reasons, the acts, and the consequences or mass violence and genocide from a global perspective. Titles of the series will be published in print and OPEN ACCESS. Advisory Board: Omer Bartov (Brown University) Wolfgang Benz (TU Berlin) Elissa Bemporad (Queens College, CUNY) Nida Kirmani (LUMS, Pakistan) Thomas Kühne (Clark University) Michael Pfeifer (John and Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY) Jürgen Zimmerer (University of Hamburg)

Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742544826

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War of Annihilation by Geoffrey P. Megargee Pdf

On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. This title provides a concise history of the Germans' opening campaign of conquest and genocide in 1941.