Genocide and ethnic cleansing Books
Harrassowitz Das Osmanische Reich Im Ersten Weltkrieg
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£50.00
Harrassowitz The Ottoman Empire in World War I
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£50.00
Harrassowitz Modern Greek Myths
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£25.00
Harrassowitz Der Neuaramaische Dialekt Von Midyat (Midyoyo):
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£82.65
Harrassowitz Hier Ruhen Friedliche Sowjetburger: Die
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£50.00
Peter Lang AG Genocidal Empires: German Colonialism in Africa
Book SynopsisBetween 1904 and 1907, German soldiers, settlers and mercenaries committed mass murder in Africa. Can this be considered the first genocide of the 20th century? Was it a forecast of the Third Reich’s extermination policy in Central and Eastern Europe? This book provides the answer. Based on extensive archival and library research in Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Germany and Poland as well as on the most recent and up-to-date jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals, the renowned historian and political scientist Klaus Bachmann paints a new and surprising picture of the events and their legal significance, which many will find disturbing and provocative. It abolishes many well-established interpretations about German colonialism and its alleged links with the Third Reich and provides a new and intriguing contribution to the current post-colonial debate.Table of ContentsGermany – History – Colonialism – Namibia – Tansania – South Africa – Genocide – International criminal justice – Reparations
£52.60
Peter Lang AG Fear Management: Foreign Threats in the Post-War
Book SynopsisThe so-called ‘people's power’ – the communists – tended to make Poles afraid. At first – afraid of the Anglo-Saxon imperialists, then of the German revisionists, Zionist 5th column and ‘Kuroń and Michnik walking on the CIA’s leash’. The creation of the atmosphere of fear featuring Germans and their alleged ‘return’ lasted until 1970. In his Fear Management Bruno Kamiński reaches to the origins of this story. Based on a huge selection of sources this analytical study exhibits how in the first 15 postwar years Poles were threatened with the Western world. In the beginning, the Germans were chosen to play the role of the main enemy, dethroned later by the Americans. At the same time, the author proves that fear next to nationalism and ethnic hostility developed into one of the pillars legitimizing the communist system. Marcin Zaremba, Polish Academy of Science, University of WarsawTable of ContentsFear management – Stalinist Poland – Communist propaganda – Top-down manipulation – Media information – Propaganda figures of ‘German threat’, ‘American capitalist’ or ‘war provoker’ – History of emotions – Social reception of the fear management policy
£50.04
Peter Lang AG Sayfo: Das Jahr des Schwertes
Book SynopsisIm Rahmen des 100-jährigen Gedenkens an den Völkermord an den Aramäern veranstaltete die Forschungsstelle für Aramäische Studien vom 29.-30. Mai 2015 die Tagung Der Genozid an der aramäischen Gemeinschaft (ost- und westsyrische Christen) im Osmanischen Reich sowie im osmanisch besetzten Iran (1914-1918) an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Dieser Sammelband beinhaltet Beiträge der Teilnehmer der Tagung und thematisiert verschiedene Felder der Erforschung des Genozids. Sie beleuchten den Völkermord an den syrischen Christen im Osmanischen Reich, die Rolle deutscher Missionen beim Völkermord, sowie Erinnerungsdiskurse der Nachfahren in der Diaspora heute. Der Band erschließt somit verschiedene Felder für die Erforschung des Genozids.
£33.75
Peter Lang AG The Palmstroem Syndrome: Mass Murder and
Book SynopsisThis book presents you with the background profiles of those mass exterminators of National Socialism who wound up in court. It pictures their ‘route to crime’ and explains why their court room profiles have always remained so controversial in the eyes of post-war observers and commentators. Both inside and outside academia, this controversy continuous to flare up every now and then. It invariably focusses on Hannah Arendt’s famous thesis about the personality of Adolf Eichmann, Hitler’s manager of mass destruction. We will take a closer look at the arguments involved in this ‘debate’ on the Banality of Evil and see how Arendt’s interpretation of Eichmann relates to the perspectives of the post-war courts who tried other exterminators of Hitler’s empire.Table of ContentsI The veiled image 7 1. Little lumps of reality 7 2. The equilibrium of madness 13 3. The Laocoön in Nuremberg 22 4. The carrousel of fate 28 5. The opportunist route to crime (and back) 39 6. ‘Show me yourself with your dog, and I’ll tell you what you are’ 53 II Pars pro toto: Franz Stangl 60 1. Conversations with the executioner 60 2. ‘The Lord God knows me’ 62 3. The dynamics of evil 65 The Austrian prologue 65 Hartheim and beyond 73 4. Truth and fiction 77 Duress of orders 79 The incorruptible policeman: Stangl’s self-portrait 86 The awareness of injustice 90 III The Palmström Syndrome 96 1. A magical encounter 96 2. The criminal of the century 99 3. ‘That which must not, cannot be’ (I) 111 4. ‘That which must not, cannot be’ (II) 119 5. Facing ‘impossible’ facts 124 Postscript: the measure of all things 128 Appendix 132 Notes 150 Bibliography 152 Index on persons 170
£21.42
Peter Lang AG German Colonialism in Africa
Book SynopsisIn this volume, six experts from Europe and Africa present new insights from the field about various aspects of Germany’s colonial rule in Africa, raising doubt about the hitherto interpretations of some important events. The outbreak of violence in Rwanda 1904 was neither an anti-colonial Hutu uprising nor the result of a royal court intrigue against German rule, but instead a response to raids, the White Father missionaries had carried out against the local population. German colonialism in Rwanda was much less benevolent than it is today recalled in Rwanda, because its main edge was directed against the population in the North whose collective memory has been marginalized in the royal abanyiginya narrative, under colonial rule and after the genocide. Other chapters deal with the link between colonial boundaries and ethnic conflict and the counter-intuitive consequences of the German/Namibian settlement about colonial atrocities against the Herero and Nama.Table of Contents1. Benevolent colonialism? German colonial rule and the reconstruction of Rwanda’s history today. 2. Between the King, the Church and the Emperor – Ijwi Island as a Rwandan, German, Belgian and Protestant colony. 3. The IRIBA Centre & the Young Artists in the City Programme Rwanda: The experience of a Decolonial Documentation, on German colonization. 4. Contemporary conflicts in Cameroon and their roots in colonial boundary delimitation. 5. Four famines in Rwanda. The social and political impact of natural disasters on the legitimacy of Rwandan governance. 6. Paying for colonial atrocities. The paradoxical outcome and the unexpected adverse consequences of the German- Namibian settlement concerning the genocide against the Herero and Nama. 7. A keyhole to Rwandan history. Missionary accounts about precolonial Rwanda and their limitations. 8. The White Fathers and Rwandan Society during the German colonial period (1900– 1916).
£41.40
Peter Lang AG The Forms of Collaboration during the Second
Book SynopsisThis book aims to present a theoretical study of the concept of collaboration during the Second World War, understood as social behaviour and actions within specific conditions of military occupation. It is based on the theories of social behaviour and action developed by Max Weber and the theory of action by Pierre Bourdieu. The book seeks to elucidate the concept of collaboration, the conditions fostering this phenomenon, and positions it within the broader context of cooperation under occupation. Through typological analysis, it provides a comprehensive assessment of various forms of collaboration, considering the motivations of the actors involved. Theoretical types of collaboration, as idealized constructions, will facilitate a deeper understanding of the motivations behind the social behaviour and actions of specific collaborating individuals.
£34.20
Logos Verlag Berlin Elitenkontinuitat Und Politik in Der Dritten
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£82.65
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Hiroshima–75 – Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts
Book Synopsis75 years after the United States dropped the world's first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of international scholars offers new perspectives on this event and the history, development, and portrayal of the utilization of atomic energy: in military and civilian industries, civil nuclear power, literature and film, and the contemporary world. What lessons have we learned since the end of the Second World War? Can we avoid disasters such as Chernobyl and Fukushima? Have we learned to live with man-made nuclear power in the 21st century?
£30.60
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Khmer Rouge Trials in Context
Book SynopsisWhen a tribunal was formed in 2006 to address the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge, many expected the Cambodian model for victim empowerment to open a new path for international judiciary initiatives. However, the local reality of the justice intervention has been more complicated. Rather than joining the success-or-failure debate about the court, this volume pays special attention to how the trials are perceived locally. Inclinations in institutional design, favored or excluded political agendas, mismatched values between experts and locals, and unexpected local meaning-making all flow into the current context in Cambodia. Through critical analysis by authors with on-the-ground experience, this collection—the first to address the tribunal through a sociological framework—provides insight into the tension between the global justice regime and local societal context.
£26.99
NIAS Press Cambodia’s Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery: 2024
Book SynopsisMore than four decades have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the country is still coming to terms with the destruction wrought in the decade when the Khmer Rouge won and held power and, thereafter, during their guerrilla resistance to the new regime in Phnom Penh until 1998. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal (or Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia, ECCC), established in 2006 to bring the Khmer Rouge leadership to justice, has long been the focus of scholarly attention in Cambodia’s recovery. In many ways a product of the 1990s, a time when liberal democracy appeared to be on the rise both in Cambodia and internationally, the ECCC was imagined as a ‘Transitional Justice’ initiative – while delivering justice it should also ease the transition to liberal democracy. This compelling study argues that approach is dated. The political circumstances in which the ECCC was born have changed profoundly, both globally and locally. No longer can Cambodia’s current situation be analysed solely in terms of transitional justice narratives or the work of the ECCC. Other ways in which Cambodians have come to terms with their past, and built new lives, must also be considered. Decentring the ECCC in the scholarly narrative of Cambodia’s recovery, the volume’s authors offer fascinating new insights into the Khmer Rouge period and more recent years of social, cultural and political change in Cambodia.Table of Contents Preface Contributors Introduction: Beyond Transitional Justice: Cambodians' Continuing Struggles for Truth in a Troubled World Section 1: Context 1. 'Egregious Dysfunctions': Transitional Justice in Cambodia's Limited Access Order 2. Khmers Rouges and Khmer Rights 3. The Rhetoric and Language of Justice at the ECCC 4. Narratives of Complex Political Victims: Constructing Victimhood and Negotiating 'Khmer Rouge' Identity in Post-Conflict Cambodia Section 2: Interactions 5. Upholding the Right to Effective Legal Representation in Cambodia: Lessons Learned from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia 6. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Failed Justice or Catalyst for Transformation? 7. Outsourcing Outreach: "Counter-Translation" of Outreach Activities at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia 8. Violent Ruptures, Collective Memory and the Temporal Borders of the ECCC in a Cambodian Village Section 3: Beyond 9. Ecocide in the Shadow of Transitional Justice: Genocidal Priming and the March of Modernity 10. Beyond Transition: Local Experiences of Change in the Forty Years Since the Fall of Democratic Kampuchea 11. The Dead, Haunting, and Reordering Cambodian Society After the Khmer Rouge 12. From Khmer Rouge Soldier to Guardian Spirit: Memorialization, Transformation, and Reunification Colour Illustrations Index
£29.71
European Interuniversity Press Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of
Book SynopsisOn the threshold to the 21st century the cry never again seems illusory, even absurd. Did it ever harbour credibility? Were we so naive? The Holocaust was not a finality, not the end of final solutions in Europe. Genocide has continued to emerge as an active element in European politics and policies. Kosovo and Bosnia provide testament. This book presents the concept of genocide as a political and social tool in modern Europe, not only reconciled with modernity, but as what may be an integral component. Modernity, however, is also closely linked with the Enlightenment and its concepts of tolerance, equality and liberty. This volume sheds light upon the inherent contradictions of modernity between Enlightenment and genocide, and on how this ambivalent European heritage is confronted. This book was produced in the framework of the research project The Cultural Construction of Community in Modernisation Processes in Comparison in co-operation between the European University Institute in Florence and Humboldt University in Berlin.
£30.88
Amsterdam University Press Genocide: New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses
Book SynopsisThe twentieth century has been called, not inaccurately, a century of genocide. And the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen little change, with genocidal violence in Darfur, Congo, Sri Lanka, and Syria. Why is genocide so widespread, and so difficult to stop, across societies that differ so much culturally, technologically, and politically? That's the question that this collection addresses, gathering a stellar roster of contributors to offer a range of perspectives from different disciplines to attempt to understand the pervasiveness of genocidal violence. Challenging outdated beliefs and conventions that continue to influence our understanding, Genocide constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on mass violence.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Ugur Ümit Üngör Part I: Causes of Genocide 1. Ethnic Nationalism and Genocide: Constructing the Other in Romania and Serbia Diana Oncioiu 2. Demonic Transitions: How Ordinary People can commit Extraordinary Evil Christophe Busch 3. State Deviancy and Genocide: The State as a Shelter and a Prison Kjell Anderson Part II: Courses of Genocide 4. Hunting Spectres: Paranoid Purges in the Filipino Communist Guerrilla Movement Alex de Jong 5. Smashing the Enemies: The Organization of Violence in Democratic Kampuchea Sandra Korstjens 6. Sexual Violence in the Nazi Genocide: Gender, Law, and Ideology Franziska Karpinski & Elysia Ruvinsky Part III: Consequences of Genocide 7. Particularistic and Integrative Struggles over Memory in Sarajevo Laura Boerhout 8. Ingando: Re-educating the Perpetrators in the Aftermath of the Rwandan Genocide Suzanne Hoeksema 9. Unravelling Atrocity: Between Transitional Justice and History in Rwanda and Sierra Leone Thijs Bouwknegt Epilogue Philip Spencer Bibliography Biographies of contributors
£107.35
United Nations University Atrocities and International Accountability:
Book SynopsisRebuilding societies where conflict has occurred is rarely a simple process, but where conflict has been accompanied by gross and systematic violations of human rights, the procedure becomes fraught with controversy. This volume brings together eminent scholars and practitioners with direct experience of some of the most challenging contemporary cases of international justice, and illustrates that justice and accountability remain complex ideals.
£22.46
Double 9 Books Battle Studies Ancient And Modern Battle
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Amsterdam University Press Machseh Lajesoumim: A Jewish Orphanage in the
Book SynopsisThe Jewish Orphanage in Leiden was the last one of eight such care homes to open its doors in the Netherlands before the Second World War. After spending almost 39 years in an old and utterly inadequate building in Leiden's city centre, the inauguration in 1929 of a brand-new building, shown on the front cover, was the start of a remarkably productive and prosperous period. The building still stands there, proudly but sadly, to this day: the relatively happy period lasted less than fourteen years. On Wednesday evening, 17th March 1943, the Leiden police, under German instructions, closed down the orphanage and delivered 50 children and nine staff to the Leiden railway station, from where they were brought to Transit Camp Westerbork in the north-east of the country. Two boys were released from Westerbork thanks to tireless efforts of a neighbour in Leiden; one young woman survived Auschwitz, and one young girl escaped to Palestine via Bergen-Belsen. The remaining 55 were deported to Sobibor – and not one of them survived. Some 168 children lived in the new building at one time or another between August 1929 and March 1943. This book reconstructs life in the orphanage based on the many stories and photographs which they left us. It is dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, but also to those who survived. Without them, this book could not have been written.Trade Review“It is a great achievement that out of a case study of one institution, the author(s) managed to create both a personal monument for so many individuals as well as a comprehensive overview of the Shoah in the Netherlands… By reading this book one gets to know the important facts and at the same time gets drawn into the stories of the people involved. It enables approaching history in both a cerebral and an emotional way. In short, when you read this book, you come close to understanding the Holocaust.” - Hannah L. van den Ende, Studia Rosenthalia, volume 48.2 (2022) “This book fits in with the work done lately by remembrance organizations such as the Jewish Monument, Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre, and Project Oorlogslevens(‘war lives’) to give victims a name, a face, and a history. It also aligns with the current notion in Holocaust research to return Jewish people their agency by describing and analyzing their choices and actions or survival strategy to escape the Nazi persecution (Finkel 2017).” - Peter Tammes, Can. J. of Netherlandic Studies/Rev. can. d’études néerlandaises, volume 42.1 (2022) "Jaap Focke has produced in this superb book a depiction of the Holocaust in the Netherlands that is both moving and informative."- B. J. O'Brien, 5-Star Amazon UK Review "By focusing on the experiences of the individual orphans and their carers the author has given the story about the Jewish orphanage in Leiden an essential depth. A remarkable and admirable book." - Prof. Dr. Hans Blom “A study that should be used in Holocaust education; through this one example, the encounter with the enormity of the Holocaust can be better understood.” - Prof. Dr. Dan Michman, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “De indrukwekkende studie van Leidenaar Jaap Focke is de weerslag van uitvoering bronnen- en archiefonderzoek en gesprekken met betrokkenen en nabestaanden. Het is in toegankelijk Engels geschreven, veronderstelt weinig voorkennis van de lezer en heeft zo onmiskenbaar de ambitie een internationaal (jong) publiek te bereiken.” -Ton van Brussel, Oud Leiden Nieuws (10/1) "Het boek Machseh Lajesoumim. A Jewish Orphanage in the City of Leiden, 1890-1943 is in de boekhandel te koop, maar ook gratis te downloaden via de website van Amsterdam University Press. De weergave van de persoonlijke documenten komt echter vooral tot zijn recht in de gedrukte uitgave. En het zijn die documenten samen met de opgetekende verhalen en de leeftijden van de slachtoffers die het boek van Focke bij vlagen een vergelijkbare intimiteit geeft als het verhaal van Anna Frank. Het boek van Jaap Focke is dan ook zonder meer een indrukwekkend eerbetoon aan de kinderen en hun begeleiders die nu bijna tachtig jaar geleden zijn vermoord."- Roeland van Wely, Sleutelstad, December 2021Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Preface 1 Jewish orphanages in Dutch society 2 1890 to 1929: A long and difficult period 3 1929: A magnificent new home 4 1929 to 1933: Happy years 5 1933 to 1939: Clouds over Europe 6 1940 to 1942: Occupation, oppression, persecution 7 1943 to 1944: Liquidation 8 So many more 9 1943 to 1946: Survivors 10 After the war Epilogue List of abbreviations and acronyms Dutch or German words used in the text List of 168 children and 9 staff who lived in the orphanage (1929-1943) Bibliography Persons index Subjects index
£28.76
Amsterdam Publishers Wolf. A Story of Hate
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£15.26
Central European University Press Political Justice in Budapest After World War II
Book SynopsisIn Hungary, which fell under Soviet influence at the end of WWII, those who had participated in the wartime atrocities were tried by so called people's courts. This book analyses this process in an objective, quantitative way, contributing to the present timely discussion on the Hungarian war guilt. The authors apply a special focus on the gender aspect of the trials. Political justice had a specific nature in Hungary. War criminals began to be brought to trial while fighting was still underway in the western part of the country, well before the Nuremberg trials. Not only crimes committed during the war were tried in the same frame but also post-war ones. As far as the post-war period is concerned, legal proceedings regarding these crimes were most often launched on the basis of Act VII of 1946. This act of law concerned "the criminal law protection of the democratic constitutional order and the republic" and its basic aim was to facilitate the creation of a communist dictatorship and to deal with perceived or real enemies of the regime.Table of ContentsContents: LEGAL BACKGROUND TO THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS AND THEIR OPERATION IN HUNGARY The System of People's Tribunals and the Actors in the Process The Crimes and the Range of Punishments Controversies Surrounding the Law on People's Tribunals RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Method of Approach Preparation Phase Pilot research Expert roundtable Training of the Encoders The Final Questionnaire Research Phase Sampling procedure From filling in the questionnaires to the data files Preparing the data files for analysis Several Notes on the Methodology and the Findings ANALYSIS OF THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL CASES Types of Cases Distribution of the types of cases over time Characteristics of the Case Files Analysis of the Various Actors in the People's Tribunals Summary of the Demographics of Defendants and Witnesses in the Various Types of Cases Lawyers Characteristics of the People's Tribunal Cases The length of trials and the number of hearings The role of witnesses at the people's tribunals Judgments Effect of the composition of witnesses on judgments A GENDERED ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL JUSTICE IN HUNGARY IN THE AFTERMATH OF WWII Women in Political Justice: Stereotypes and Reality about Women Perpetrators Witnesses Court Judgments Women People's Judges Summary: Gender in political justice JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNALS Characteristics of the People's Tribunal Cases Defendants and Their Characteristics Witnesses and Their Characteristics Court Judgments Jewish Identity and the Practice of Political Justice SUMMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
£93.83
Bloomsbury Academic Lethal Elites
£33.66
Academic Studies Press The Armenians in Modern Turkey
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£24.00
