Genocide and ethnic cleansing Books

Book SynopsisMaking extensive use of Russian, German, and Polish archives, This book has provides the most exact and detailed reconstruction of the 'Final Solution' yet achieved. Aly illustrates the lunacy of Nazi race policy, and the variety of agencies that went into the gradual shaping of a policy of all-out genocide.Trade Review'This outstanding work - based on detailed research, often into hitherto untapped sources - is the best analysis to date of the complex developments between 1939 and 1941 that produced the Nazi genocide against the Jews.' Ian Kershaw 'Much of the documentation, insight, and argument of the book are both new and important... a fine book from which no one seriously interested in the subject can fail to profit.' Neue Politische Literatur 'Aly is one of the most original, prolific, and controversial figures in this new cohort of historians... his arguments cannot be dismissed easily, since he is an indefatigable researcher as well as a powerful writer... his conclusions are always challenging and provocative... Final Solution is an important addition to the literature on the origins of the Holocaust, and it should be read by anyone who wishes to understand the context within which the genocide of the Jews occurred.' The New Republic 'Aly is among the most original and controversial German writers on the Holocaust.' ChoiceTable of ContentsPolicy toward the Jews, war and resettlement; "making room" for ethnic Germans, chronology - September 1939-April 1940; "Himmler is shifting population.."; "the Madagascar plan", chronology - May-September 1940; "home to the Reich", and into a camp; a major plan fails, chronology - 15 November 1940-15 March 1941; ghetto, work, "the war to the East"; war of extermination and Lebensraum, chronology - 1 May-31 July 1941; disappointed hopes of victory; "the Jews have to go"; elements of the decision to carry out the Holocaust; the murderers' postscripts.

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Book SynopsisEnsure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide range of topics. Each title in the series provides comprehensive coverage of different history topics on current AS and A2 level history specifications, alongside exam-style practice questions and tips to help students achieve their best. The series:- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the AS and A2 level history topics through an engaging, in-depth and up-to-date narrative, presented in an accessible way. - Aids revision of the key A level history topics and themes through frequent summary diagrams- Gives support with assessment, both through the books providing exam-style questions and tips for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A level history specifications and through FREE model answers

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Timeline List of Personages Foreword by Robert Jay Lifton Introduction: In the Shadow of Genocide Part One • The Prison without Walls Preamble 1. A Head for an Eye: Disproportionate Revenge 2. Power, Patronage, and Suspicion 3. In the Shade of Pol Pot’s Umbrella Part Two • The Fire without Smoke Preamble 4. The DK Social Order 5. Manufacturing Difference 6. The Dark Side of Face and Honor Conclusion: Why People Kill Note on Transliteration Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congoyoung people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution. Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her personal journey, which begins with the will to do good yet ends with the realization of how international aid can contribute to greater harm than good. The idea of protection and universalized human rights is turned on its head as Seymour uncovers the complicities and hypocrisies of the aid world. In the promotion of inalienable human rights, aid organizations ignore the complex historical and socioeconomic dynamics that lead to the violations of such rights. Offering a new perspective, The Myth of International Protection reframes how the world sees the DRC and urges global audiences to consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's seemingly endless violence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Map 1. A Beginning 2. Outrages in Congo 3. Surviving Violence 4. Embodying Violence 5. Navigating Violence 6. Meanings of Violence 7. The Myth of International Protection Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisGenocide involves significant death and trauma. Yet the enormous scope of genocide comes into view when one looks at the factors that lead to mass killing, the struggle for survival during genocide, and the ways survivors reconstruct their lives after the violence ends. Over a one hundred day period in 1994, the country of Rwanda saw the genocidal slaughter of at least 800,000 Tutsi at the hands of members of the Hutu majority government. This book is a powerful oral history of the tragedy and its aftermath from the perspective of its survivors. Based on in-depth interviews conducted over the course of fifteen years, the authors take a holistic approach by tracing how victims experienced the horrific events, as well as how they have coped with the aftermath as they struggled to resume their lives. The Rwanda genocide deserves study and documentation not only because of the failure of the Western world to intervene, but also because it raises profound questions about the ways survivors create a new life out of the ashes of all that was destroyed. How do they deal with the all-encompassing traumas of genocide? Is forgiveness possible? And what does the process of rebuilding teach us about genocide, trauma, and human life?Trade Review“The authors offer valuable insights into psychological trauma and its link to loss of identity. . . . Becoming Human Again is not an easy read but it is a worthwhile one; a journey through horror to healing.” * New Internationalist *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments PART I: The Genocide 1. Encountering the Genocide 2. How Did It Happen? 3. Orphan Memories 4. The Experience of Women 5. Coping after Genocide PART II: Postgenocide Experiences 6. Trauma as Moral Rupture 7. A Holistic Model of Healing 8. Forgiveness 9. Justice and Reconciliation 10. Becoming Human Again Appendix I: Methodology Appendix II: Survey Results on Distress and Resilience Beth E. Meyerowitz and Lauren C. Ng Notes References and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCrimes in Archival Form explores the many ways in which human rights facts are produced rather than found. Using Myanmar as his case study, Ken MacLean examines the fact-finding practices of a human rights group, two cross-border humanitarian agencies, an international law clinic, and a global NGO-led campaign. Foregrounding fact-finding, in critical yet constructive ways, prompts long overdue conversations about the possibilities and limits of human rights documentation as a mode of truth-seeking. Such conversations are particularly urgent in an era when the perpetrators of large-scale human rights violations exploit misinformation, weaponize disinformation, and employ outright falsehoods, including deepfakes, to undermine the credibility of those who document abuses and demand accountability in the court of public opinion and in courts of law. MacLean compels practitioners and scholars alike to be more transparent about how human rights fact production works, why it is important, and when its use should prompt concern.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments and Dedication List of Abbreviations Notes on Terminology Introduction 1. Pacifying Bodies Histories of Preemptive Violence 2. Enslaving Bodies Verbatim in Replicated Form 3. Starving Bodies Visual Economies of Enumeration 4. Killing Bodies Narrativity Transcribed 5. Investigating Bodies The Recursive Logic of Citations Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough it was one of the monumental events, the Cultural Revolution remains one of the most understudied political mass movements. This book will reshape the scholarship on the Cultural Revolution, both because of its stark treatment of political violence and its focus on events in the Chinese countryside.Trade Review“This is a truly terrific book, and long overdue too, leaving behind the well-trodden ground of the Red Guards in Beijing to focus unflinchingly on the horror of mass killings in the countryside. Yang Su has written a model of rigorous scholarship that squarely places the Cultural Revolution where it should have been all along, in the area of genocide studies on a par with Rwanda, as villagers turned against villagers, slaughtering each other in the hundreds of thousands.” —Frank Dikotter, University of Hong Kong, author of Mao’s Great Famine“Theoretically, this book is the first attempt showing that the development of modern genocide is not only shaped by the ideologically charged nation state, but also by the local actors and structural forces in ways quite unintended by the state actors. Empirically, this book reminds us once again that the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern world. It also turns our attention from the dynamics of the Cultural Revolution in China’s urban settings to the less known stories in rural areas. This book will be on our shelves as an outstanding work in the study of the Cultural Revolution and the politics of the Chinese communist regime, genocide study, and social movement research.” —Dingxin Zhao, The University of Chicago"Su tells a heart-rendering story and contributes new insights to the burgeoning academic literature on contentious politics and genocide." — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs"Yang Su deserves great credit for uncovering the collective killings and for his penetrating analysis of their multiple causes"Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University, H-Net ReviewsTable of Contents1. Kill thy neighbor; 2. On the record; 3. Community and culture; 4. Class enemies; 5. Mao's ordinary men; 6. Demobilizing law; 7. Framing war; 8. Patterns of killing; 9. Understanding atrocities in plain sight.

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Book SynopsisOf all the horrors of the last century, ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this landmark book attests, ethnic cleansing is neither new nor likely to cease in our time.Trade ReviewAs Norman M. Naimark observes…with broad enough standards the ‘ethnic cleansing’ label can be affixed to events as disparate as the destruction of Carthage, the crusade against the Albigensians, the expulsion of Jews from Spain, the Spanish conquest of the Incas and Aztecs, and the expulsion of Indians from tribal lands in the United States… He objects that such a catchall approach fails to explain current events in useful terms… Naimark provides…disturbing details—and much other cause for sad reflection. -- Anatole Shub * New Leader *What strands link the last century’s bloody spasms of ethnic cleansing—from the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust to Bosnia and Kosovo? Stanford University historian Naimark argues ethnic cleansing is a profoundly twentieth-century phenomenon, not a product of ‘ancient hatreds’… The ugliness of ethnic cleansing—its violence and brutality, its misogyny and totality, its effort to eradicate every trace of ‘the other’—poses unique challenges to an international community reluctant to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation state. -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *A needed measure of clarity… [Naimark] embeds ethnic cleansing in the history of 20th-century Europe…[and] undercuts the standard wisdom that holds ancient enmities responsible for atrocities perpetrated in the modern era… Students of history and international relations are indebted to professor Naimark for [his] sobering insights. -- James R. Holmes * Library Journal *As a contribution to the study of mass violence in this century, this book is very reliable, eminently readable, and highly educational. Naimark emphasizes that ethnic cleansing is a ‘profoundly modern experience’ and the international community, which has sometimes encouraged and more usually ignored large-scale atrocities, is responsible. -- Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard UniversityDuring the last decade, Americans and Europeans rediscovered the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Norman Naimark’s important research demonstrates that it was hardly an invention of the l990s, but has had a long history, often shrouded in silence because it was easier to live with the results. This is an immensely relevant and anguishing study. -- Charles Maier, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Armenians and Greeks of Anatolia 2. The Nazi Attack on the Jews 3. Soviet Deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars 4. The Expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia 5. The Wars of Yugoslav Succession Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisHow can we prevent future atrocities, and stop the ones that are happening now? This book tells the powerful story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.Trade ReviewThat the World May Know explores the double binds that attract, reward and torment those engaged in human rights and humanitarian work on the front lines of intervention. Because of its combination of interview and literary material, it presents a rich and diverse set of data to the reader. No one has so far written a book quite like this. -- Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights StudiesDawes maintains a remarkable balance of tone, searchingly sympathetic yet calmly analytical. -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *Anyone concerned with human rights--with humanity in general--will come away from James Dawes' That The World May Know troubled and well informed...During the last 30 years, Americans have seen images of or read about genocide, torture, and violent political repression in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Darfur, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Nigeria, and Argentina. Dawes' book asks us to think about how stories of atrocity are told, who gets to tell them, how those stories affect us, and ultimately what good they may or may not do. -- Tom Palaima * Texas Observer *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, Association for Asian Studies""Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History""Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide""Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars""One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History""One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018""[Robinson’s] book skilfully combines a human rights advocate’s anger with academic rigour."---Julia Lovell, The Guardian"In this masterful account . . . the killings receive the comprehensive, scholarly treatment they have long needed."---Tony Barber, Financial Times"Robinson [displays his] ability to combine, with chilling calm, a broad theoretical analysis and comparative analysis with a detailed understanding of events."---Adrian Vickers, Times Literary Supplement"A useful contribution to regional history and a much-needed voice in the ‘path of silence’ that followed a murderous time." * Kirkus *"Robinson’s work is painstakingly careful and deserves as wide a readership as possible. . . . The real importance of this book is that it exposes in meticulous detail a modern genocide from the inside out. Governments and politicians could learn from this to prevent genocides before they even happen."---Richard Cockett, Literary Review"This meticulous scholarly analysis of the country's institutions comprehensively investigates the economic, religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors behind the arrests, rape, torture, and murder that were inflicted on communist true believers and innocents alike. Robinson's authoritative scholarly work is an indispensable resource for specialists seeking a comprehensive overview of this little-studied period in Southeast Asian history." * Publisher's Weekly *"Crucial. . . . The Killing Season is clearly and elegantly written, the prose often driven by a controlled anger."---Alex de Jong, Jacobin"The facts and horrors of [the Indonesian massacres of 1965-66] are the subject of Geoffrey B. Robinson’s essential volume, The Killing Season. In careful detail, Robinson lays out the background for the slaughter and its execution, laying blame squarely on those Indonesians and Western powers responsible for what he calls a crime against humanity—the aftereffects of which are still apparent today."---Mitchell Abidor, Jewish Currents"Robinson’s The Killing Season is a vital work in documenting one of the worst mass killings of the 20th century — and exposing the complicity of Western governments." * Green Left Weekly *"An authoritative and harrowing account of the massacres in Indonesia and their aftermath. . . . Robinson spares no one, but his indictment is nuanced and rises above Cold War passions. . . . The findings of Robinson’s painstaking scholarship may shock those accustomed to triumphal readings of the Cold War, but Robinson provides a more accurate, if less inspirational, perspective on U.S. policy."---Gary Bass, Foreign Affairs"This is an important and extensively researched account about the activities and consequences of state terrorism, using the Indonesian experience as its case study."---Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism"Robinson’s work is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on the 1965 events that draws on a rich body of primary and secondary sources. The book is an easy read when it comes to language and an enlightening read when it comes to the details of army operation and strategies. It is a must-read for Indonesianists, and many part of the book might also draw the attention of people dedicated to genocide and military studies in general."---Timo Duile, Austrian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies"Robinson’s masterly account of the terrible slaughters that took place in Indonesia offers important reflections on the nature of mass violence."---Christopher Hale, History Today"An authoritative and harrowing account of the massacres in Indonesia and their aftermath."---Gary J. Bass, Foreign Affairs"This book is recommended for those trying to understand the causes, both domestic and international, behind the massacres of 1965-66. It is also an insight into Indonesia’s continuing struggle to come to terms with this painful episode in its history."---Frank Beyer, Inside Indonesia"Robinson, an expert on human rights, concludes with a thought provoking analysis of why mass killings and illegal detentions take place, and considers the long-term consequences of the events of 1965-1966 for Indonesian society. He has written a clear and well documented book which is essential reading for anyone interested in modern Indonesian history."---Roger Hamilton, Asian Affairs"An encyclopedic exploration into this event, why it happened, who supported it, and what its impact on the nation has been. . . . The Killing Season is a very powerful book. I strongly recommend it."---Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns & Money"Geoffrey Robinson emphasizes that one of his main objectives in writing this book was to ‘disturb the troubling silence.’ I have waited many years for such a book to appear, one which I hoped would help to pierce the West’s historical amnesia. Robinson has written an extraordinary work that does full justice to this neglected topic. Deeply researched and packed with fascinating and revelatory information, The Killing Season is considered, scholarly, well-argued, and absolutely gripping reading. As soon as I finished reading this book, I wanted to dive right back into it again."---Gregory Elich, CounterPunch"Remarkable."---Ken Silverstein, New Republic"I see The Killing Season as a must-read for anyone interested in Indonesia and broadly defined human rights issues of Southeast Asia for its unparalleled comprehensiveness, solid archival research, and elegant writing style."---Kankan Xie, New Books Asia

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Book SynopsisFamines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac O Grada, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new persTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 "[I]ts final chapter offers salient discussion of future possibilities and constraints for food security."--Liz Young, Times Higher Education "This book is written in calm prose, but its message is urgent: continue as we are and poverty will grow on our doorsteps."--Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education "The Irish economist Cormac O? Gra?da has written a rarity: a coolly rational, cautiously cheerful book about the most viscerally upsetting subject imaginable, mass death from hunger...For O? Gra?da, perhaps the world's expert on the history and economics of famine, now is the time to understand this long-standing terror."--Charles C. Mann, Pacific Standard "The breadth of primary and secondary resources referenced is notable throughout, and this excellent book by a leading scholar is accessible to all readers."--Choice "Cormac O Grada knows more than most people about famines, historical and modern, and his short book of essays, Eating People is Wrong, is superb."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist "The overriding impression one gets from reading Cormac O Grada's latest, brilliant book is that famines the world over are an ugly human stain."--David Nally, Irish Times "Dealing with some of the most horrendous aspects of famine, the five essays collected here are meticulously scholarly and at the same time arrestingly vivid."--John Gray, New Statesman "O Grada's book offers a sobering reminder of the importance of making judgments based on good data and unhindered by ideological filters."--Douglas Gollin, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Eating People Is Wrong: Famine's Darkest Secret? 11 2 "Sufficiency and Sufficiency and Sufficiency": Revisiting the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 38 3 Markets and Famines: Pre-industrial Europe and Beyond 92 4 Great Leap into Great Famine 130 5 Famine Is Not the Problem-For Now 174 Bibliography 209 Index 231

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Book SynopsisWhy did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented? Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, EricTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "There is much new in Weitz's analysis and his isolation of the common mechanisms of state-sponsored genocide is an invaluable contribution to the literature on the subject... Despite its analytical and reasoned approach, this work cannot be read without feeling outrage, despair and horror. Weitz's work raises profound questions about the human capacity for violence."--Publishers Weekly "A Century of Genocide has much to offer. It will serve as an excellent first introduction to Lenin and Stalin's crimes, the Holocaust, the Cambodian massacres of the 1970s and the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia."--Brendon Simms, Times Higher Education Supplement "[A] book that must be read and that must be argued over. Without an understanding of the issues [it] tackle[s] with passion and in depth, the desire to intervene--to prevent ethnic cleansing or genocide--is meaningless."--Rima Berns-McGown, International Journal "Weitz has produced something exceedingly rare: a scholarly book one cannot put down. This is a meritorious, thoughtful book."--Choice "An important, thought-provoking book on an inordinately complex subject."--Gavriel Rosenfeld, The New Leader "Weitz makes a persuasive case that these genocides were not simply anarchic eruptions of age-old hatreds, but rather were engineered by crisis-ridden regimes promoting utopian visions requiring a radical refashioning of the population."--Martin Farrell, Perspectives on Politics "This important, highly thoughtful book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on genocide in the twentieth century. It deserves a wide audience among scholars, undergraduates, and policy makers. Broad ranging, genuinely comparative, rigorous, and learned, A Century of Genocide is engagingly written, while prudent and balanced in its judgments."--Frank Chalk, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsAbbreviations vii Preface to the New Paperback Edition ix An Armenian Prelude 1 Introduction: Genocides in the Twentieth Century 8 Chapter 1 Race and Nation: An Intellectual History 16 Chapter 2 Nation, Race, and State Socialism: The Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin 53 Chapter 3 The Primacy of Race: Nazi Germany 102 Chapter 4 Racial Communism: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge 144 Chapter 5 National Communism: Serbia and the Bosnian War 190 Conclusion 236 Notes 255 Bibliography 311 Acknowledgments 339 Index 343

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A political scientist turns fresh eyes on the problem of how European Jews responded to the Holocaust as it was unfolding... Of much interest to students of modern history but also to those engaged in humanitarian relief efforts, refugee relocation, and the like."--Kirkus "Instances of ... mass hysteria have been appearing on a weekly basis, revealing an historical illiteracy so vast that it could contain 1,000 books on the Holocaust. If the ignorant could read only one of them ... Ordinary Jews would be an excellent way to begin their education."--Stefan Kanfer, City JournalTable of ContentsList of Tables, Maps, and Figures vii Note on Transliteration ix 1 Introduction 4 2 Setting the Stage: Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust 21 3 What Did the Jews Know? 51 4 Cooperation and Collaboration 69 5 Coping and Compliance 98 6 Evasion 126 7 Resistance 159 8 Conclusions 191 Appendix 1 Data and Archival Methods 199 Appendix 2 Distribution of Strategies 208 Appendix 3 Beyond the Three Ghettos: Econometric Analysis of Uprisings 212 Notes 223 Abbreviations 245 Bibliography 247 Glossary 263 Acknowledgments 265 Index 269

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, Association for Asian Studies""Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History""Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide""Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars""One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History""One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015""[I]ts final chapter offers salient discussion of future possibilities and constraints for food security."---Liz Young, Times Higher Education"This book is written in calm prose, but its message is urgent: continue as we are and poverty will grow on our doorsteps."---Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education"The Irish economist Cormac Ó Gráda has written a rarity: a coolly rational, cautiously cheerful book about the most viscerally upsetting subject imaginable, mass death from hunger. . . .For Ó Gráda, perhaps the world's expert on the history and economics of famine, now is the time to understand this long-standing terror."---Charles C. Mann, Pacific Standard"The breadth of primary and secondary resources referenced is notable throughout, and this excellent book by a leading scholar is accessible to all readers." * Choice *"Cormac Ó Gráda knows more than most people about famines, historical and modern, and his short book of essays, Eating People is Wrong, is superb."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist"The overriding impression one gets from reading Cormac Ó Gráda's latest, brilliant book is that famines the world over are an ugly human stain."---David Nally, Irish Times"Dealing with some of the most horrendous aspects of famine, the five essays collected here are meticulously scholarly and at the same time arrestingly vivid."---John Gray, New Statesman"Ó Gráda's book offers a sobering reminder of the importance of making judgments based on good data and unhindered by ideological filters."---Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Modern and multidisciplinary. . . . Settling for Less provides the most comprehensive analysis of settler colonialism."---Kyosuke Kikuta, The Developing Economies"Prodigious research and presentation." * Choice *"McNamee’s book is mandatory reading for scholars interested in both the causes and consequences of colonization. . . . Charles Tilly once warned us not to crow too loudly about the death of empires. But Lachlan McNamee’s excellent, accessible, and well-written book has given us reason to crow. Slowly but surely, the structural force of modernization works against the strategic goals of empire."---Jacob Gerner, Perspectives on Politics"McNamee asks big questions, constructs an original and provocative theory, unearths previously unused, indeed, unknown data, and compiles persuasive evidence to support his hypotheses . . . Settling for Less is an extraordinary first book of the sort to which authors aspire."---David A. Lake, Political Science Quarterly

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Modern and multidisciplinary. . . . Settling for Less provides the most comprehensive analysis of settler colonialism."---Kyosuke Kikuta, The Developing Economies"Prodigious research and presentation." * Choice *"McNamee’s book is mandatory reading for scholars interested in both the causes and consequences of colonization. . . . Charles Tilly once warned us not to crow too loudly about the death of empires. But Lachlan McNamee’s excellent, accessible, and well-written book has given us reason to crow. Slowly but surely, the structural force of modernization works against the strategic goals of empire."---Jacob Gerner, Perspectives on Politics"McNamee asks big questions, constructs an original and provocative theory, unearths previously unused, indeed, unknown data, and compiles persuasive evidence to support his hypotheses . . . Settling for Less is an extraordinary first book of the sort to which authors aspire."---David A. Lake, Political Science Quarterly

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library""Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust Category""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""An astonishing breadth of interviews of survivors and their relatives. . . . Of profound interest to serious students and readers of history." * Library Journal *"Joskowicz offers a fascinating and often heartbreaking account of the Roma struggle for justice and restitution in the face of persecution. . . . The great virtue of Joskowicz’s book, alongside the comprehensiveness of its research, is its refusal to reduce any of the weighty issues it discusses to abstractions, or to stray from the complex and often contradictory human experiences at stake. Instead, Joskowicz grounds his account in the lives of the people whose suffering and whose activism animate his scholarship."---Daniel Kraft, Slate"A clear, flow­ing por­trait of this under­stud­ied but deeply vio­lat­ed pop­u­la­tion that fun­da­men­tal­ly alters our per­cep­tion of the Holo­caust, enlarg­ing it to include the Romani vic­tims and bring­ing to the fore their quest for his­tor­i­cal jus­tice and self-representation. . . . [An] illuminating new book."---Linda F. Burghardt, Jewish Book Council"Remarkable. . . .At a time when Holocaust parallels have become once again contentious and politicised, Joskowicz’s book builds a refreshing case for careful and nuanced historical comparison."---Dr Christine Schmidt, BBC History Magazine"[Joskowicz] brings new focus to the testimonies of victims of the Nazi regime, especially the stories of long-ignored Romani victims, often gathered from the witness testimonies of and interviews with Jewish survivors of the camps. . . . A deeply important book for the questions it raises about the ways in which historians collect and analyze history." * Choice Reviews *"It is rare for an academic text to be highly readable, accessibly written, and an important work of historical scholarship, but Ari Joskowicz’s Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust ticks all three of these boxes. . . . This book is an absolute must-read. Ultimately, Rain of Ash is a completely novel achievement, a real boon to multiple fields of study, and well worth your time."---Claire Greenstein, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Incisive. . . . Joskowicz grapples with fundamental issues in the field of memory studies, namely, what and how we remember, and the way that a politicization of memory can destabilize or challenge dominant narratives of history. . . . A significant and poignant contribution to the field of Holocaust (and Romani) Studies."---Natasza Gawlick, Journal of Austrian Studies"Time and eloquent. . . . Each chapter of Rain of Ash offers new and sometimes surprising data and insights, to which a short review cannot do justice. It draws on adventurous research in archives all over the world and on digitised sources which have become available in recent decades. Joskowicz has exploited these imaginatively to identify the personalities and reconstruct the interactions that drove institutional and political engagement with the facts and significance of the Romani Holocaust between 1945 and the 2010s. He displays an admirable sensitivity to the challenges as well as the opportunities offered by this expanding source base, and he writes with an analytical clarity that is simultaneously humane and even-handed."---Eve Rosenhaft, Continuity and Change

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Book SynopsisIn 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. The author's close analysis of the Kesselring case reveals how a network of veterans, lawyers, and German sympathizers in Britain and America achieved the commutation of Kesselring's death sentence and his eventual release.Trade ReviewHistorians have analyzed the postwar trials of German officers before, but none have done it so brilliantly. While truth may be the first casualty in war, Von Lingen shows that it often suffers in peacetime as well. A fascinating and essential book. Robert M. Citino, author of Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 ""A superb study that is balanced, extremely thorough, and highly readable. What makes this book especially timely is its discussion of war crimes, command responsibility, and the process of conducting such trials."" James S. Corum, author of Wolfram von Richthofen: Master of the German Air War ""An important contribution."" Richard Breitman, editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive survey of developments in Kosovo leading up to, during and after the war in 1999, providing additionally the international and regional framework to the conflict.Trade Review'With its unique focus, this book constitutes an important milestone in a large academic debate. With its 350 pages this rich collection provides many valuable perspectives, yet, it also raises some questions.'- Nationalities Papers, Vol 32, No. 2'With its multi-disciplinary character this book is a valuable source for scholars, policy-makers, and journalists who want to make feasible arguments and informed policy choices related to the region.'- Maria Koinova, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents1. Claims to Kosovo 2. Kosovo or Kosova 3. Ethnic Prejudices and Discrimination 4. The Limits of Non Military International Intervention 5. Rambouillet 6. When Doves Support War and Hawks Oppose It 7. The Theory of Humanitarian Intervention 8. War on Kosovo 9. Religion in Kosovo and the Balkans 10. The UN in Kosovo 11. Ethnic Borders to a Democratic Society 12. The EU Intervention 13. Questioning Reconstruction v Regional Perspectives for an Independent Kosovo 14. Kosovo Independence and Macedonian Stability 15. Serbia after the Kosovo War

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Book SynopsisSince the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, uncounted thousands of civilians have died in the fighting and as a result of the destruction. These are deaths for which no one assumes responsibility and which have been presented, historically, as fallout. No one knows their true number.   In The Bodies in Person, Nick McDonell introduces us to some of the civilians who died, along with the rescue workers who tried to save them, U.S. soldiers grappling with their deaths, and everyone in between. He shows us how decent Americans, inside and outside the government and military, looked away from the mounting death toll, even as they claimed to do everything in their power to prevent civilian casualties.    With a novelist's eye — and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews — McDonell brings us the untold story of the innocent dead in America's ongoing wars, from leveled cities to drone operation centers to Capitol back rooms. As we follow him around the world, The Bodies in Person raises questions not only about what it means to be an American, but about the value of a life, what it means to risk one, and what is owed afterward.

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Book SynopsisDetailing the horror of the 1994 massacres, and the suffering of the Rwandan people, Sibomana also offers a strong vision of hope for the futureTrade Review'Takes us into hell, into humanity, into the horror of the crime of genocide' -- Mission de L’EgliseTable of ContentsForeword Chronology Abbreviations Preface: André Sibomana, or faith against the odds by Laure Guilbert and Hervé Deguine Part I: The committed priest 1. The gifted child from Masango 2. Choosing the path of God 3. The journalist and human rights activist Part II: On the edge of the abyss 4. A cry in the wilderness 5. Lord, where were you during the genocide? 6. Words fail us Part III: Time is against us 7. The duty of justice and the duty of memory 8. The role of the Church: guilty or an incriminating witness? 9. Rwanda caught in an impasse Conclusion: We must not give up hope Postscript: What future for the defence of human rights in Rwanda? by Carina Tertsakian Bibliography Human rights in Rwanda Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the role of the media in the Rwandan genocide -- within the country and beyond.Trade ReviewCollected volumes often do not cohere well. Thompson's collection is an exception, and it additionally demonstrates the value of edited books. the reader is treated to a range of approaches and opinions that would be hard to find in a single-authored monograph. -- Scott Straus, Modern African Studies, vol 46/1-2008Table of ContentsForeword: Message to the symposium on the media and the Rwanda genocide by Kofi Annan Preface Introduction by Allan Thompson 1. The media dichotomy by Roméo Dallaire 2. Rwanda: walking the road to genocide by Gerald Caplan Part 1: Hate media in Rwanda 3. Call to genocide: radio in Rwanda, 1994 by Alison Des Forges 4. RTLM propaganda: the democratic alibi by Jean-Pierre Chrétien 5. Kangura: the triumph of propaganda refined by Marcel Kabanda (4910) 6. Rwandan private print media on the eve of the genocide by Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro 7. Echoes of violence: considerations on radio and genocide in Rwanda by Darryl Li 8. Journalism in a time of hate media by Thomas Kamilindi 9. RTLM: the medium that became a tool for mass murder by Mary Kimani 10. The effect of RTLM's rhetoric of ethnic hatred in rural Rwanda by Charles Mironko Part 2: International coverage of the genocide 11. Reporting the genocide by Mark Doyle 12. Who failed in Rwanda, journalists or the media? by Anne Chaon 13. Reporting Rwanda: the media and the aid agencies by Lindsey Hilsum 14. Limited vision: how both the American media and government failed Rwanda by Steven Livingston 15. Missing the story: the media and the Rwandan genocide by Linda Melvern 16. What did they say? African media coverage of the first 100 days of the Rwandan crisis by Emmanuel C. Alozie 17. Exhibit 467: genocide through a camera lens by Nick Hughes 18. Media failure over Rwanda's genocide by Tom Giles 19. A genocide without images: white film noirs by Edgar Roskis 20. Notes on circumstances that facilitate genocide: The attention given to Rwanda by the media and others outside Rwanda before 1990 by Mike Dottridge 21. The media's failure: a reflection on the Rwandan genocide by Richard Dowden 22. How the media missed Rwandan genocide by Alan J. Kuperman 23. An analysis of news magazine coverage of the Rwanda crisis in the United States by Melissa Wall Part 3: Journalism as genocide: the Media Trial 24. The verdict: summary judgement from the Media Trial 25. The pre-genocide case against Radio-Télévision Libre des Milles Collines by Simone Monasebian 26. The challenges in prosecuting print media for incitement to genocide by Charity Kagwi-Ndungu 27. 'Hate media' - crimes against humanity and genocide: Opportunities missed by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by Jean-Marie Biju-Duval 28. A lost opportunity for justice: Why did the ICTR not prosecute gender propaganda? by Binaifer Nowrojee Part 4: After the genocide and the way forward 29. Intervening to prevent genocidal violence: the role of the media by Frank Chalk 30. Information in crisis areas as a tool for peace: the Hirondelle experience by Philippe Dahinden 31. The use and abuse of media in vulnerable societies by Mark Frohardt and Jonathan Temin 32. Censorship and propaganda in post-genocide Rwanda by Lars Waldorf 33. PG - parental guidance or portrayal of genocide: The comparative depiction of mass murder in contemporary cinema by Michael Dorland 34. The responsibility to report: a new journalistic paradigm by Allan Thompson Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFirst-generation Palestinian refugees recall life before and after the NakbaTrade Review'Through the pages of this book the reader can hear, feel, experience and understand more about the Nakba than by reading any other book on the subject' -- Raja Shehadeh, author of 'Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation''Moving and thoughtful [...] With their silences, ellipses and jags of storytelling, the refugee voices invite us to imagine the lives torn asunder by the violence of the Nakba' -- Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London and author of 'Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration' (CUP, 2019)‘Brings to life the experiences of ordinary Palestinians in pre-1948 Palestine and the traumatic experience of war and exile, written by leading scholars in the field. Of special value in this volume is the section on control and resistance during the Mandate dealing with policing, and narratives of rebellion’ -- Salim Tamari, Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Birzeit University'A truly impressive collection [...] An opportunity to reconsider whether what the Palestinians faced was victimhood rather than an act of colonialism' -- Dawn Chatty, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford'Imaginatively curated and framed [...] A brilliant contribution to the current moment as the world finally understands the true nature of the Palestinian struggle' -- Ahdaf Soueif, author of 'The Map of Love''The stories gathered here are the fruit of perseverant gathering. Their careful, deliberate, loving translation bear the sense and sensualities of Palestinian existence. 'Voices of the Nakba' shows how and why those who will not forget will never be forgotten' -- Fred Moten, cultural theorist and author of 'The Feel Trio''The oral history of colonised people is a lifeline against the coloniser's official history with its violent erasure. This excellent book centres the marginalised voices of Palestinians, reflecting the rich and complex tapestry of their experiences' -- Ibtisam Azem, author of 'The Book of Disappearance''A comprehensive, illuminating, and moving work of scholarship, which is also, quite simply, a work of art' -- Liron Mor, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine‘A monumental achievement [...] Enhancing the use of oral history as a research methodology, this book is a major addition to Nakba Studies and the living history of modern Palestine. A must read for those interested in the roots of the Palestinian refugee question and a just future for Palestine.’ -- Professor Nur Masalha, Palestinian historian and formerly Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary's University, TwickenhamTable of ContentsList of Figures Map of Palestine Acknowledgements Note on Translation and Transliteration Foreword by Mahmoud Zeidan Introduction: Past Continuous by Diana Allan PART I: Life in Pre-1948 Palestine 1. Village Life in Palestine - Rochelle Davis 2. Of Forests and Trees: City Life in 1930s Palestine - Sherene Seikaly 3. The Margin and the Centre in Narrating Pre-1948 Palestine - Amirah Silmi 4. Mandated Memory: The Schooling of Palestine in Nicola Ziadeh’s and Anis Sayigh’s Pre-1948 Recollections - Dyala Hamzah PART II: The British Mandate and Palestinian and Arab Resistance 5. Motivations and Tensions of Palestinian Police Service under British Rule - Alex Winder 6. Storying the Great Arab Revolt: Narratives of Resistance During 1936–39 - Jacob Norris 7. Songs of Resistance - Ted Swedenburg PART III: War and Ethnic Cleansing 8. The Roots of the Nakba - Salman Abu Sitta 9. Four Villages, Four Stories: Ethnic Cleansing Massacres in al-Jalil - Saleh Abdel Jawad 10. Remembering the Fight - Laila Parsons PART IV: Flight and Exile 11. The Dispossession of Lydda - Lena Jayyusi 12. Scars of the Mind: Trauma, Gender and Counter-Memories of the Nakba - Ruba Salih 13. The Politics of Listening - Cynthia Kreichati Afterword: Oral History in Palestinian Studies by Rosemary Sayigh Contributors and Translators Glossary Notes Index

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Book SynopsisYezidi survivors speak out in this important history of persecution and genocideTrade Review'A comprehensive, indispensable work' -- 'Südwind''The discrimination, exclusion and persecution of the Yezidis did not just begin in 2014 with the so-called Islamic State. Thomas Schmidinger shows with great dedication the anatomy of a subtle genocide against the Yezidis in last two hundred years' -- Professor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Director of the Institute for Genocide and Peace Studies, Stuttgart'An important book delving into the history and recent memory of the community, a vivid reminder of how the past and present of the Yezidis continue to be painfully intertwined' -- Nelida Fuccaro, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the New York University Abu Dhabi'Thomas Schmidinger is one the best experts on the region. This book is a must read' -- Josef Weidenholzer, former MEP and Professor Emeritus, University of Linz, Austria'Fills a void in the literature. Through impressive first-hand documentation, the book explains the culture and history of this unique community in sympathetic terms and details the rapacious genocidal aggression of ISIS to obliterate this ancient Mesopotamian community' -- Tareq Y. Ismael, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface to the English edition Timeline Abbreviations Maps Introduction Part I History of Sinjar and the genocide 1. The Sinjar Mountains as a natural space 2. Sinjar in ancient times 3. From the Islamic conquest to the periphery of the Ottoman Empire 4. The religion of the Êzîdî 5. Social order and religious office-holders of the Êzîdî 6. The tribal society in Sinjar 7. Sinjar in the late Ottoman Empire 8. The British occupation and protectorate 9. The Êzîdî in Iraq 10. Resentments against the Êzîdî 11. Ethno-confessional groups in the Sinjar region: Êzîdî, Christians, Jews and Muslims 12. Sinjar under the rule of the Ba’th Party 13. After the fall of Saddam Hussein: between Baghdad and Erbil 14. The massacre of 14 August 2007: the 73rd firman? 15. Encircled by jihadists 16. The IS genocide in August 2014 17. Genocide 18. The reintroduction of slavery and sexual violence 19. Struggle for liberation: regional conflicts in the smallest spaces 20. The life of the displaced 21. Regional conflicts: Sinjar in the crosshairs of Turkey and Iran 22. Marginalised and instrumentalised: is there a future for the Êzîdî in Iraq? Part II Photographs Part III Interviews Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKatyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name.Trade Review"An informative survey of the debates occaasioned by the crimes of early 1940." Times Literary Supplement "A fine example of international research collaboration." Russian Review "An important corrective to most recent studies of imperialism, which rarely transcend the national optic." Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research "This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and the humanities." Jay Winter, Yale University "In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory." Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz "The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem – and some of the solutions." Timothy Snyder, Yale University'This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and the humanities.'Jay Winter, Yale University 'In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory.'Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz 'The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem – and some of the solutions.'Timothy Snyder, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures A Note on Translation and Transliteration Map Timeline Introduction: Remembering Katyn Chapter One: Katyn in Poland Chapter Two: Katyn in Katyn Chapter Three: Katyn in Ukraine Chapter Four: Katyn in Belarus Chapter Five: Katyn in the Baltic States Chapter Six: Katyn in Russia Chapter Seven: Katyn in Katyn Coda: ‘Katyn-2' Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKatyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name.Trade Review"An informative survey of the debates occaasioned by the crimes of early 1940." Times Literary Supplement "A fine example of international research collaboration." Russian Review "An important corrective to most recent studies of imperialism, which rarely transcend the national optic." Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research "This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and the humanities." Jay Winter, Yale University "In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory." Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz "The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem – and some of the solutions." Timothy Snyder, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures A Note on Translation and Transliteration Map Timeline Introduction: Remembering Katyn Chapter One: Katyn in Poland Chapter Two: Katyn in Katyn Chapter Three: Katyn in Ukraine Chapter Four: Katyn in Belarus Chapter Five: Katyn in the Baltic States Chapter Six: Katyn in Russia Chapter Seven: Katyn in Katyn Coda: ‘Katyn-2' Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised edition of Martin Shaw''s classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In a thorough account of the idea''s history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concepts like ethnic cleansing and politicide. Offering a radical critique of the existing literature on genocide, he argues that what distinguishes genocide from more legitimate warfare is that the ''enemies'' targeted are groups and individuals of a civilian character. He vividly illustrates his argument with a wide range of historical examples - from the Holocaust to Rwanda and Palestine to Yugoslavia - and shows how the question ''What is genocide?'' matters politically whenever populations are threatened by violence. The second edition of this compelling book will continue to spark interest and vigorous debate, appealing to students and scholars across the social sciences and in international law.Trade ReviewIn this second edition of his wonderful book, Shaw shows that definitions matter in explaining genocide. Incorporating recent work he gives a highly-intelligent view of genocide, broadly defined as in Raphael Lemkin?s original coining of the term. If you want to read a general work on genocide and ethnic cleansing, this should be your first choice. Michael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles The first edition of What is Genocide? rightly became an instant classic. The second edition adds depth on Raphael Lemkin, the notion of genocidal massacre and the structural dimensions of genocide. It is essential reading for teaching and thinking about this troubling subject. Dirk Moses, European University InstituteTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition 1 Introduction: The Importance of Definition PART I: THE GENOCIDE IDEA 2 Raphael Lemkin and the Idea of Genocide 3 The Concept after Lemkin 4 The Holocaust Standard 5 The 'Cleansing' Euphemism 6 The Many 'Cides' of Genocide PART II: AGENCY AND STRUCTURE IN GENOCIDE 7 From Intentionality to a Structural Concept 8 The Structure of Genocide: Conflict and War 9 Actors and Process in Genocidal Conflict 10 Structural Contexts: Explaining Modern Genocide 11 Conclusion: New Definitions Index

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised edition of Martin Shaw s classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In a thorough account of the idea s history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concepts like ethnic cleansing and politicide.Trade ReviewIn this second edition of his wonderful book, Shaw shows that definitions matter in explaining genocide. Incorporating recent work he gives a highly-intelligent view of genocide, broadly defined as in Raphael Lemkin?s original coining of the term. If you want to read a general work on genocide and ethnic cleansing, this should be your first choice. Michael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles The first edition of What is Genocide? rightly became an instant classic. The second edition adds depth on Raphael Lemkin, the notion of genocidal massacre and the structural dimensions of genocide. It is essential reading for teaching and thinking about this troubling subject. Dirk Moses, European University InstituteTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition 1 Introduction: The Importance of Definition PART I: THE GENOCIDE IDEA 2 Raphael Lemkin and the Idea of Genocide 3 The Concept after Lemkin 4 The Holocaust Standard 5 The 'Cleansing' Euphemism 6 The Many 'Cides' of Genocide PART II: AGENCY AND STRUCTURE IN GENOCIDE 7 From Intentionality to a Structural Concept 8 The Structure of Genocide: Conflict and War 9 Actors and Process in Genocidal Conflict 10 Structural Contexts: Explaining Modern Genocide 11 Conclusion: New Definitions Index

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Book SynopsisThis highly original work provides a thought-provoking and valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in genocide, criminology, international organizations, and law and society. In her book, Caroline Fournet examines the law relating to genocide and explores the apparent failure of society to provide an adequate response to incidences of mass atrocity. The work casts a legal perspective on this social phenomenon to show that genocide fails to be appropriately remembered due to inherent defects in the law of genocide itself. The book thus connects the social response to the legal theory and practice, and trials in particular. Fournet''s study illustrates the shortcomings of the Genocide Convention as a means of preventing and punishing genocide as well as its consequent failure to ensure the memory of this heinous crime.Trade Review'Genocide still features on today's front pages. This book offers intriguing insights into our collective failures of imagination and practice in preventing and punishing mass atrocity. It will be of interest to lawyers and policy makers, and to all who seek to understand the origins of our tragic institutional shortcomings and our moral debt to the memory of the victims.' David Fraser, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: memory and genocide. Part I Specificity and Uniqueness of Genocides: The crime of genocide: 'A crime without a name'?; Dehumanizing intent and death by destruction. Part II The Conventional Interpretation of the Specificity of the Crime of Genocide: The Restrictive Approach of the Genocide Convention: The conventional approach to the genocidal pattern of conduct: the omission of dehumanization; The conventional selective protection of groups: the omission of 'racialization'; The conventional approach to genocidal intent; The genocidal state; The conventional omission of genocide denial; The conventional restrictive approach and the jus cogens prohibition of genocide. Part III Consequences of the Conventional Restrictive Approach to the Crime of Genocide: The Inapplicability of the Genocide Convention and Its Impact on Collective Memory of the Crime: The symptoms of the inapplicability of the genocide convention: the lack of state practice; Legal memory: its impact on social and collective memory of the crime and as a tool against denial; Conclusion: forgiving the unforgivable?; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisTalar Chahinianholds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, USA, where she is also Visiting Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. She has served as assistant editor of the Armenian Review (2010-2017) and is currently co-editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Sossie Kasbarian is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling, UK. She is co-editor of Diaspora- A Journal of Transnational StudiesTsolin Nalbantian is a University Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University working on the social and cultural history of the Middle East. Nalbantian is co-series editor of Critical, Connected Histories (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies, and History Compass. Her book, Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon TheTrade ReviewThis book fills a gap in the social science literature on the Armenian diaspora. It is masterfully edited by three representatives of the younger generation of Armenian American academics: Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian and Tsolin Nalbantian. All three embody the renewal of diasporic Armenian research, as well as sharing common concerns, passions and aspirations. * CIVILNET *Table of ContentsIn Lieu of an Introduction Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian, Tsolin Nalbantian I. “The Logic of the Sedentary”: Complicating Notions of Home and Homelands Chapter 1 In search of the Sedentary: Armenian Diaspora Homelands between Addis Ababa, Jerusalem, Valence and Paris, Boris Adjemian Chapter 2 Armenian Displaced Persons: From Displacement to a Diaspora Community, Gegham Mughnetsyan Chapter 3 Diaspora-Homeland relations Re-examined: The case of Syrian Armenian in the Netherlands, Nare Galstyan II. “Diasporic Social Formation”: Leadership Elites, Institutions, and Transnational Governmentality Chapter 4 Forging Diasporic Identity in the Fin de Siècle Armenian Periodical Press in Europe, Hasmik Khalapyan Chapter 5 Transnational Politics and Governmental Strategies in the Formative Years of the Post-Genocide Armenian Diaspora (1920s-1930s), Vahe Sahakyan Chapter 6 Defiant Adherence: Cultural Critiques in Late Twentieth Century Armenian Diaspora Literature, Lilit Keshishyan Chapter 7 Liturgical Subject of the Armenian Apostolic Church: Recent Waves of Migration, Christopher Sheklian III. “The Social Text of Diaspora”: Diasporic Becoming and Legibility in Diaspora’s Semantic Domain Chapter 8 Sounding Armenian: The Contours of the Diasporic Musical Imaginary, Sylvia Alajaji Chapter 9 "Toward the Diaspora": The Performative Powers of Vahé Oshagan's Poetry, Karen Jallatyan Chapter 10 The Armenians in Turkey: From autochthonous people to diaspora, Talin Suciyan Chapter 11 Are Istanbul Armenians Diasporic? Unpacking the Famous Debate, Hrag Papazian Afterword, Khachig Tölölyan Epilogue, Sebouh Aslanian

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Book SynopsisZabel Yesayan was a prominent Armenian writer and intellectual whose many novels and non-fiction works include In the Ruins, her account of the Adana massacres. Arakel Minassian is a PhD candidate at at the University of Michigan, USA

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Book SynopsisBy challenging the ways that survivors of mass violence are typically understood as either eyewitnesses to history or victims of it, the contributors to this volume ask us to go “beyond testimony” to embrace sustained listening and collaborative research design.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: The Political Work of Witness1 The Ex-Disappeared in Post-Dictatorship Argentina: The Work of Testimony and Survivors at the Margins / Ari Gandsman2 Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: Engaging with the “Testimony” of Injured Workers / Robert Storey3 The Ethics of Learning from Rwandan Survivor Communities: Critical Reflexivity and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Genocide Education / Lisa Taylor, Umwali Sollange, and Marie-Jolie Rwigema4 The Role of Oral History in Surviving a Eugenic Past / Robert A. WilsoPart 2: Working with Survivors5 From Testimony to Recounting: Reflections from Forty Years of Listening to Holocaust Survivors / Henry Greenspan6 Collaborative Witnessing and Sharing Authority in Conversations with Holocaust Survivors / Carolyn Ellis and Jerry Rawicki7 Sharing “A Big Kettle of Soup”: Compassionate Listening with a Holocaust Survivor / Chris Patti8 “Questions Are More Important than Answers”: Creating Collaborative Workshop Spaces with Holocaust Survivor-Educators in Montreal / Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki9 On Tour with Mapping Memories: Sharing Refugee Youth Stories in Montreal Classrooms / Michele Luchs and Elizabeth MillerPart 3: Acts of Composure and Framing10 Economic Violence, Occupational Disability, and Death: Oral Narratives of the Impact of Asbestos-Related Diseases in Britain / Arthur McIvor11 The Frames We Use: Narratives, Ethnicity, and the Problem of Multiple Identities in Post-Conflict Oral Histories (Bosnia-Herzegovina) / Catherine Baker12 Memories of Departures: Stories of Jews from Muslim Lands in Montreal / Yolande Cohen, Martin Messika, and Sara Cohen Fournier13 Finding Meaning in Oral History Sources through Storytelling and Religion / Marie A. PelletierAfterword / Henry GreenspanIndex

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Book SynopsisBy challenging the ways that survivors of mass violence are typically understood as either eyewitnesses to history or victims of it, the contributors to this volume ask us to go beyond testimony to embrace sustained listening and collaborative research design.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: The Political Work of Witness1 The Ex-Disappeared in Post-Dictatorship Argentina: The Work of Testimony and Survivors at the Margins / Ari Gandsman2 Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: Engaging with the “Testimony” of Injured Workers / Robert Storey3 The Ethics of Learning from Rwandan Survivor Communities: Critical Reflexivity and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Genocide Education / Lisa Taylor, Umwali Sollange, and Marie-Jolie Rwigema4 The Role of Oral History in Surviving a Eugenic Past / Robert A. WilsoPart 2: Working with Survivors5 From Testimony to Recounting: Reflections from Forty Years of Listening to Holocaust Survivors / Henry Greenspan6 Collaborative Witnessing and Sharing Authority in Conversations with Holocaust Survivors / Carolyn Ellis and Jerry Rawicki7 Sharing “A Big Kettle of Soup”: Compassionate Listening with a Holocaust Survivor / Chris Patti8 “Questions Are More Important than Answers”: Creating Collaborative Workshop Spaces with Holocaust Survivor-Educators in Montreal / Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki9 On Tour with Mapping Memories: Sharing Refugee Youth Stories in Montreal Classrooms / Michele Luchs and Elizabeth MillerPart 3: Acts of Composure and Framing10 Economic Violence, Occupational Disability, and Death: Oral Narratives of the Impact of Asbestos-Related Diseases in Britain / Arthur McIvor11 The Frames We Use: Narratives, Ethnicity, and the Problem of Multiple Identities in Post-Conflict Oral Histories (Bosnia-Herzegovina) / Catherine Baker12 Memories of Departures: Stories of Jews from Muslim Lands in Montreal / Yolande Cohen, Martin Messika, and Sara Cohen Fournier13 Finding Meaning in Oral History Sources through Storytelling and Religion / Marie A. PelletierAfterword / Henry GreenspanIndex

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Book SynopsisBenjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass...Trade ReviewIn this brilliant study of genocides and mass murders, Valentino analyzes conditions leading to such monstrous crimes based on more than eight cases.... Valentino's extraordinary scholarship provides a challenge to conventional wisdom about what can and should be done about genocide. * Choice *In trying to make sense of such violence, scholars have tended to look within societies: at collective psychology, ethnic and racial hatred, and the character of government. In this astute and provocative study, Valentino argues instead that leaders, not societies, are to blame. In most cases, he finds that powerful leaders use mass killing to advance their own interests or indulge their own hatreds, rather than to carry out the desires of their constituencies.... Valentino cleverly notes that if mass killing is not deeply rooted in society but a tactic of state power, the rest of the world has fewer excuses for inaction. * Foreign Affairs *Valentino's analysis is flawless. His empirically rooted case studies are appropriate and interpretive strategies rigorous. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mass Killing in Historical and Theoretical Perspective1. Mass Killing and Genocide2. The Perpetrators and the Public3. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing4. Communist Mass Killings: The Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia5. Ethnic Mass Killings: Turkish Armenia. Nazi Germany, and Rwanda6. Counterguerrilla Mass Killings: Guatemala and AfghanistanConclusion: Anticipating and Preventing Mass KillingNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOn August 30, 1999, in a United Nations-sponsored ballot, East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia and for an end to a brutal military occupation. Upon the announcement of the result, Indonesian troops and their paramilitary proxies launched a wave of terror that, over three weeks, resulted in the murder of more than 1,000 people, the rape of untold numbers of women and girls, the razing of 70 percent of the country''s buildings and infrastructure, and the forcible deportation of 250,000 people. In recounting these horrible acts and the preceding events, Joseph Nevins shows that what took place was only the final scene in more than two decades of atrocities. More than 200,000 people, about a third of the population, lost their lives due to Indonesia''s 1975 invasion and subsequent occupation, making the East Timorese case proportionately one of the worst episodes of genocide since World War II. In A Not-So-Distant Horror, Nevins reveals the international compliTrade ReviewA Not-So-Distant Horror is essential for understanding the broader context of Washington's latest support for Jakarta's military. The book provides a thorough overview of 'international community' backing for the twenty-four-year Indonesian military occupation of East Timor, and shows the blatant power calculations that went into the sell-out of the East Timorese. As Nevins quotes then-U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Stapleton Roy saying in 1999, 'Indonesia matters and East Timor doesn't.'. -- Ben Terrall * Counterpunch.org *In an account described by Noam Chomsky as 'searingly honest,' Joe Nevins analyzes how Western nations conspired to back Indonesia and keep the East Timor issue out of the spotlight. The price paid by the East Timorese was a loss of life estimated at close to two hundred thousand, or a third of its population, proportionally one of the worst cases of genocide since World War II. -- Maire Leadbeater * The New Zealand Herald *Nevins's account of the period from Indonesia's unlawful invasion of East Timor on 7 December 1975 to the withdrawal of its forces in September 2001 is factual, accurate, and spare.... There is much to reflect on in Nevins's book, not least the mute acceptance in Australia of many U.S. policies as our own. -- Richard Broinowski * Australian Book Review *This book identifies many villains and even more numerous accomplices, not only in East Timor but in 'painful events' around the world. It will raise the reader's righteous indignation as well as awareness. Implicit is the hope that awareness and indignation will stimulate deeper, more truthful accounts of 'painful events', leading to justice, restitution and moral closure. -- Stephen Hoadley * New Zealand International Review *Rarely do contemporary histories address foreign policy making from the perspective of human rights and justice. Even rarer is a book like Joseph Nevins's A Not-So-Distant Horror, which compellingly makes the case that failure to give such concerns adequate weight in policy formulation has produced ruinous results.... This book should be read by all those concerned that Washington's eager embrace and empowerment of rogue militaries in the so-called 'war on terror'—as we did during the Cold War—will again strengthen regimes characterized by their corruption and hostility to democracy and human rights. -- Edmund McWilliams * Foreign Service Journal *This is a gripping and powerful saga rooted in the horrible atrocities and deprivation endured by the East Timorese following Indonesia's invasion in 1975. Indonesian security forces ruled ruthlessly until 1999, causing nearly 200,000 conflict-related deaths, imprisoning and torturing thousands more, while raping and plundering with abandon. A generation of East Timorese grew up where the rule of law was a distant rumor and human rights were routinely violated. Joseph Nevins briefly recapitulates this history, focusing on international complicity in these crimes against humanity, but mostly dwells on the troubling failure to secure justice. -- Jeff Kingston * The Japan Times *

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Book SynopsisBenjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of government, and dysfunctions in society play a much smaller role in mass killing and genocide than is commonly assumed. He shows that the impetus for mass...Trade ReviewIn this brilliant study of genocides and mass murders, Valentino analyzes conditions leading to such monstrous crimes based on more than eight cases.... Valentino's extraordinary scholarship provides a challenge to conventional wisdom about what can and should be done about genocide. * Choice *In trying to make sense of such violence, scholars have tended to look within societies: at collective psychology, ethnic and racial hatred, and the character of government. In this astute and provocative study, Valentino argues instead that leaders, not societies, are to blame. In most cases, he finds that powerful leaders use mass killing to advance their own interests or indulge their own hatreds, rather than to carry out the desires of their constituencies.... Valentino cleverly notes that if mass killing is not deeply rooted in society but a tactic of state power, the rest of the world has fewer excuses for inaction. * Foreign Affairs *Valentino's analysis is flawless. His empirically rooted case studies are appropriate and interpretive strategies rigorous. * Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mass Killing in Historical and Theoretical Perspective1. Mass Killing and Genocide2. The Perpetrators and the Public3. The Strategic Logic of Mass Killing4. Communist Mass Killings: The Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia5. Ethnic Mass Killings: Turkish Armenia. Nazi Germany, and Rwanda6. Counterguerrilla Mass Killings: Guatemala and AfghanistanConclusion: Anticipating and Preventing Mass KillingNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy.Trade Review"[Murder State is] one of the most important works ever published on the history of American Indians in California in the mid-nineteenth century."—Steven Newcomb, Indian Country “A significant historical account detailing white pioneers perpetrating genocide against California Indians. . . . [Employs] compelling evidence.”—Clifford E. Trafzer, Journal of American Studies “Lindsay’s methodology and conclusions . . . highlight important questions for scholars to ask of frontier societies, their legal systems, and their citizens.”—Brenden Rensink, Western Historical Quarterly “Perhaps the most provocative aspect of his book is Lindsay’s connection of American democracy to the killing of Indians.”—Robert G. Lee, American Historical Review“Democracy and genocide are two activities that most would declare antagonistic. Yet Brendan Lindsay presents primary evidence that reveals the hatred and murderous acts committed by early Californians and government officials, as a grassroots movement, to settle the ‘Golden State’ by exterminating and dispossessing Native peoples of their ancestral homelands.”—Jack Norton, Hupa historian and emeritus professor of Native American studies, Humboldt State University“Historian Brendan Lindsay has documented the attempted extermination of California’s first people and provided a detailed, comprehensive historical treatment of California’s genocide. He offers a groundbreaking study that will change the historiography of California and genocide studies—a penetrating but readable book that will quickly become a classic.”—Larry Myers (Pomo), executive secretary of the California Native American Heritage CommissionTable of ContentsList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Defining GenocidePart 1. Imagining GenocideIntroduction1. The Core Values of Genocide2. Emigrant Guides3. The Overland Trail ExperiencePart 2. Perpetrating GenocideIntroduction4. The Economics of Genocide in Southern California5. Democratic Death Squads of Northern CaliforniaPart 3. Supporting GenocideIntroduction6. The Murder State7. Federal Bystanders to and Agents of Genocide8. Advertising GenocideConclusion: At a Crossroads in the GenocideEpilogue: Forgetting and Remembering GenocideNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder, rape, and enslavement of thousands of Native people were legitimized by notions of democracy—in this case mob rule—through a discreetly organized and brutally effective series of petitions, referenda, town hall meetings, and votes at every level of California government. Murder State is a comprehensive examination of these events and their early legacy. Preconceptions about Native Americans as shaped by the popular press and by immigrants’ experiences on the Overland Trail to California were used to further justify the elimination of Native people in the newcomers’ quest for land. The allegedly “violent nature” of Native peoplTrade Review"[Murder State is] one of the most important works ever published on the history of American Indians in California in the mid-nineteenth century."—Steven Newcomb, Indian Country “A significant historical account detailing white pioneers perpetrating genocide against California Indians. . . . [Employs] compelling evidence.”—Clifford E. Trafzer, Journal of American Studies “Lindsay’s methodology and conclusions . . . highlight important questions for scholars to ask of frontier societies, their legal systems, and their citizens.”—Brenden Rensink, Western Historical Quarterly “Perhaps the most provocative aspect of his book is Lindsay’s connection of American democracy to the killing of Indians.”—Robert G. Lee, American Historical Review“Democracy and genocide are two activities that most would declare antagonistic. Yet Brendan Lindsay presents primary evidence that reveals the hatred and murderous acts committed by early Californians and government officials, as a grassroots movement, to settle the ‘Golden State’ by exterminating and dispossessing Native peoples of their ancestral homelands.”—Jack Norton, Hupa historian and emeritus professor of Native American studies, Humboldt State University“Historian Brendan Lindsay has documented the attempted extermination of California’s first people and provided a detailed, comprehensive historical treatment of California’s genocide. He offers a groundbreaking study that will change the historiography of California and genocide studies—a penetrating but readable book that will quickly become a classic.”—Larry Myers (Pomo), executive secretary of the California Native American Heritage CommissionTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Defining Genocide Part 1. Imagining Genocide Introduction 1. The Core Values of Genocide 2. Emigrant Guides 3. The Overland Trail Experience Part 2. Perpetrating Genocide Introduction 4. The Economics of Genocide in Southern California 5. Democratic Death Squads of Northern California Part 3. Supporting Genocide Introduction 6. The Murder State 7. Federal Bystanders to and Agents of Genocide 8. Advertising Genocide Conclusion: At a Crossroads in the Genocide Epilogue: Forgetting and Remembering Genocide Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn eight case studies written by recognized experts this book offers a major contribution to the comparative analysis of genocidal phenomena. Besides tapping a rich vein of empirical data, this collective effort breaks new ground in analyzing how denial, oblivion, or manipulated memory tends to mask the hideous realities of mass killing.Trade Review"Lemarchand's Forgotten Genocides is an excellent contemporary compilation of significant authors contributing to the growing academic consciousness on genocide. This is achieved by focusing their intellectual arts on less known acts of mass violence. . . . This book is certainly a must-read in any such research path a scholar may take within this area." * Human Rights Quarterly *"Thanks to [Lemarchand's] painstaking effort, readers now have more knowledge of the scope of genocides in history. Moreover, they can better analyze, from a global and comparative perspective, the universality and particularity of these incidents. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Required reading for students of human rights and the general public alike. By utilizing a common analytical framework and emphasizing similar mechanisms that account for these 'forgotten genocides,' this volume stands out as an important and cohesive body of work." * Historical Justice and Memory Research Network *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction —René Lemarchand 1 Mass Murder in Eastern Congo, 1996-1997 —Filip Reyntjens and René Lemarchand 2 Burundi 1972: Genocide Denied, Revised, and Remembered —Rene Lemarchand 3 "Every Herero Will Be Shot": Genocide, Concentration Camps, and Slave Labor in German South-West Africa —Dominik J. Schaller 4 Extermination, Extinction, Genocide: British Colonialism and Tasmanian Aborigines —Shayne Breen 5 Tibet: A Neo-Colonial Genocide —Claude Levenson 6 The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds: Chemical Weapons in the Service of Mass Murder —Choman Hardi 7 The Assyrian Genocide: A Tale of Oblivion and Denial —Hannibal Travis 8 The "Gypsy Problem": An Invisible Genocide —Michael Stewart Notes List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDocuments the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s.Trade Review“Michael Cangemi provides an outstanding contribution to historical research on Guatemala, Catholic activism, and US policy in Central America. By using a breadth of United States English language secular and religious archives, a range of Catholic newspaper accounts, and by delving into Guatemalan Human Rights reports, Cangemi creates a dialogue among these distinct experiences of and perspectives on Guatemala’s violent history.”—Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, author of The Maryknoll Catholic Mission in Peru, 1943–1989: Transnational Faith and Transformation "The book is a work of remarkably deep multilingual and multiarchival research that uses documents from religious as well as government archives in the United States and Guatemala, Catholic newspapers, and official human rights reports to give a voice to the victims of the Guatemalan genocide. Cangemi treats the topic with extraordinary sensitivity, delving deeply into diplomatic relations, state and church relations, and the experiences of Guatemalans and Catholic activists, including priests, nuns, and lay people. It is a wrenching, devastating account, but never a sensationalized one, and Cangemi weaves together the complex stories of transnational human rights activism, Cold War exigencies, and genocide with sophistication. The writing is crisp and the arguments compelling. It adds considerable to our understanding of Cold War U.S.-Latin American relations as well as to our understanding of the religious dynamics of genocide and the significant influence of religious activism on U.S. politics and foreign policy making. In short, it is a groundbreaking addition to the work on religious groups and the Guatemalan civil war that scholars such as Theresa Keeley and Virginia Garrard have done."—Lauren Turek, author of To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations.

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Book SynopsisDocuments the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s.Trade Review“Michael Cangemi provides an outstanding contribution to historical research on Guatemala, Catholic activism, and US policy in Central America. By using a breadth of United States English language secular and religious archives, a range of Catholic newspaper accounts, and by delving into Guatemalan Human Rights reports, Cangemi creates a dialogue among these distinct experiences of and perspectives on Guatemala’s violent history."—Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, author of The Maryknoll Catholic Mission in Peru, 1943–1989: Transnational Faith and Transformation

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Book SynopsisDavid Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences as the initial US observer of the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha to seek out what led to the Rwandan genocide. The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis of the crisis and of what happens generally when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short.Trade Review“In lucid prose, Rawson weaves an informative, readable story of the complicated diplomatic efforts leading to the Arusha Accords of 1993. Drawing on vast documentation as well as his personal knowledge of the context, he provides a valuable perspective on the challenges—and ultimate failure—of the efforts to achieve peace. This thoughtful work adds important insights to our understanding of the road to ruin in Rwanda.”“Rawson puts the bottom line up front––Arusha failed because the parties to the talks were seeking power, not peace....This book is the definitive work on the Arusha talks and the most detailed and best-documented account of a diplomatic negotiation that I know of.”“In this story of frontline diplomacy David Rawson attempts to understand why negotiations failed to keep tragedy at bay in Rwanda.…[He] paints a revealing picture of struggling diplomacy and the dire consequences of failed conflict resolution.” * Foreign Service Journal *

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