War crimes Books
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin A Reckoning Philippine Trials of Japanese War
Book SynopsisExamination of postwar trials is now a thriving area of research, but Sharon W. Chamberlain is the first to offer an authoritative assessment of the legal proceedings convened in the Philippines. These were trials conducted by Asians, not Western powers, and centred on the abuses suffered by local inhabitants rather than by prisoners of war.Trade ReviewA riveting historical narrative. Making extensive use of primary sources, it offers a wealth of information and stories of real people through whose eyes Chamberlain unravels the complex postwar matrix of colonization and decolonization, hatred and forgiveness, and hard political and economic calculations."" - Franziska Seraphim, author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Usage Abbreviations Introduction 1 War Crimes during the Occupation: The Picture That Emerges from the Trials 2 Rising to the Challenge: Assuming Responsibility for Trials 3 The Trials: Questions of Guilt and Innocence 4 Awaiting Their Fate: Sentence Reviews, Reprieves, and Executions 5 From Retribution to Resolution: The Journey from Executions to Pardons 6 Constructing Narratives and Assessing Impact Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Hachette Books Horror In The East
Book SynopsisThe question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians? During the First World War, the Japanese fought on the side of the Allies and treated German POWs with respect and civility. In the years that followed, under Emperor Hirohito, conformity was the norm and the Japanese psyche became one of selfless devotion to country and emperor soon Japanese soldiers were to engage in mass murder, rape, and even cannibalization of their enemies. Horror in the East examines how this drastic change came about. On the basis of never-before-published interviews with both the victimizers and the victimized, and drawing on never-before-revealed or long-ignored archival records, Rees discloses the full horror of the war in the Pacific, probing the supposed Japanese belief in their own racial sup
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Hachette Books A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs
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Little, Brown & Company One Long Night
Book SynopsisFor over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of never again.In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repressio
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Hachette Books A Moonless Starless Sky
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WW Norton & Co Crimes of War 2.0
Book Synopsis"A reference that has no counterpart…. Civilization is in debt to all [the contributors]."—International Herald TribuneTrade Review"...should be on the bookshelf of every prime minister, defence minister and foreign secretary." The Times Higher Educational Supplement"
£18.99
Taylor & Francis Genocide The Basics
Book SynopsisGenocide: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the study of a controversial and widely debated topic. This concise and comprehensive book explores key questions such as; how successful have efforts been in the prevention of genocide? How prevalent has genocide been throughout history? and how has the concept been defined? Real world case studies address significant issues including: The killing of indigenous peoples by colonial powers The Holocaust and the question of uniqueness Peacekeeping efforts in the 1990s Legal attempts to create a genocide-free world With suggestions for further reading, discussion questions at the end of each chapter and a glossary of key terms, Genocide: The Basics is the ideal starting point for students approaching the topic for the first time. Trade ReviewPaul Bartrop is to be congratulated on producing an excellent introduction to the study of genocide for the ever growing number of readers who are studying the topic. This volume is an excellent guide to genocide within history as well as to its contemporary legal and political controversies, and those teaching and taking courses on genocide will find it to be an invaluable resource.Patrick Hayden, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Defining Genocide 2. Colonial Genocides 3. The Christians of the Ottoman Empire 4. The Holocaust 5. Genocide, Asia, and the Cold War 6. Genocide in the 1990s 7. South Sudan and Darfur: Genocide Again 8. Other Cases: Problems of Classification 9. The Dilemmas of Prevention and Intervention 10. International Justice 11. The Future Glossary References Index
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University of California Press After the Massacre Commemoration and Consolation
Book SynopsisThe legacy of the massacre of civilians at My Lai reverberates throughout Vietnam. This study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling massacre of unarmed civilians - assimilate the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual life.Trade Review"Offers a timely addition to the fields of comparative religion and war." Southeast Review Of Asian StdsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Foreword Map of Vietnam Introduction 1. The Bipolarity of Death 2. Massacres in the Year of the Monkey, 1968 3. A Generation Afterward 4. Ancestors in the Street 5. Heroes and Ancestors 6. Grievous Death 7. The Stone of Fury 8. The Decomposition of the Cold War Conclusion: Liberation from Grievance Notes Index
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University of California Press Crimes in Archival Form Human Rights Fact
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
£60.35
University of California Press Crimes in Archival Form Human Rights Fact
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
£30.36
Cambridge University Press The Nuremberg SSEinsatzgruppen Trial 19451958
Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival research, this book offers a historical examination of the arrest, trial and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the Eastern front.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… illuminating … Earl has undertaken original and extensive archival research and safely takes her place with other major scholars working on Nazism's historical and legal legacy. … convincing and … devastating.' Edinburgh Law Review'Earl's conclusions augment the … scholarly examinations of the necessary but imperfect judicial reckoning with |Nazism.' The Journal of Central European HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The United States and the origins of the subsequent Nuremberg trials; 2. Otto Ohlendorf and the origins of the Einsatzgruppen trial; 3. Defendants; 4. Defense; 5. Trial; 6. Judge and judgment; 7. Aftermath; Conclusion.
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Random House USA Inc East West Street
Book SynopsisA profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe’s center, the city of bright colors—Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from south, in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A book that explores the development of the world-changing legal concepts of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich. It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as the author traces the mysterious story of his grandfather as he maneuvered through Europe in the face of Nazi atrocities. This is “a monumental achievement ... told with love, anger and precision” (John le Carré, acclaimed internationally bestselling author).East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in “the Paris of Ukraine,” a major cultural center of Europe, a city variously called Lemberg, Lwów, Lvov, or Lviv. Phillipe Sands changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder
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Random House USA Inc The Unwanted
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Tafelberg Publishers Ltd Death Flight Apartheids Secret Doctrine of
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Harvard University, Asia Center The Tokyo War Crimes Trial The Pursuit of
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)commonly called the Tokyo trialestablished as the eastern counterpart of the Nuremberg trial in the immediate aftermath of World War II.Trade ReviewThe significance of this book is not whether the Tokyo trials established the guilt of Japanese wartime political leaders for initiating an aggressive war, and their culpability for the horrific war crimes committed by Japanese military personnel against innocent civilians and Allied military personnel. While these are important, the real import of The Tokyo War Crimes Trials is its systematic, yet nuanced analysis of the prevalent Japanese view--one that persists to this day--that the Tokyo tribunals were illegitimate because the legal process was corrupted for ideological and political reasons...This excellent book belongs on the bookshelf of every historian interested in legal history generally and war crimes in particular. -- Fred L. Borch * Journal of Military History *
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Harvard University Press Divided Memory The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys
Book SynopsisWhat has Germany made of its Nazi past? This book explores the legacy of the Nazi regime, exposing the workings of past beliefs and political interests, and how differently the two Germanys have recalled the crimes of Nazism.Table of ContentsMultiple restorations and divided memory; German communism's master narratives of antifascism - Berlin-Moscow;East Berlin, 1928-1945; from periphery to centre - German communists and the Jewish question, Mexico City, 1942-1945; the Nuremberg interregnum - struggles for the recognition in East Berlin, 1945-1949; purging 'cosmopolitanism' - the Jewish question in East Germany, 1949-1956; memory and policy in East Germany from Ulbricht to Honecker; the Nuremberg interregnum - divided memory in the western zones, 1945-1963; atonement, restitution, and justice delayed - West Germany, 1949-1963; politics and memory since the 1960s.
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Princeton University Press They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else
Book SynopsisStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remaiTrade ReviewA Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection Winner of the 2016 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in History 2015, chosen Tony Barber "In recent years scholars of Ottoman history have published a number of path-breaking, award-winning academic studies documenting the annihilation of the Armenians in 1915. Published on the one hundredth anniversary of that horrible event, Ronald Grigor Suny's monograph stands out as another superb work, in this case the best narrative account explaining 'why, when, and how' the Armenian genocide occurred."--Marc David Baer, H-Nationalism "An authoritative examination of unspeakable horrors... [D]eeply researched, fair-minded... Suny creates a compelling narrative of vengeance and terror."--Kirkus, starred review "The centenary [of the Armenian Genocide] has raised the diplomatic temperature and precipitated many books. Ronald Suny's is the best of them: Balanced, scholarly, and harrowing, it should be read by all serious students of modern history."--Dominic Green, Weekly Standard "Suny is admirably dispassionate in explaining the particular circumstances that led the Ottoman government to embark on a policy of mass extermination."--Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times "[W]hat distinguishes Suny's scholarship is a scrupulous attention to context and the genuine imperial anxiety of the Young Turks. They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else (a title taken from another Talat diktat) is a fair-minded account. Unsparing in depicting the viciousness of the killing, forced conversions and kidnapping of children and young women, it is rigorous in its choice of language and nuance, generous in its empathy but implacable in its conclusions."--David Gardner, Financial Times "A tremendously powerful, scrupulously balanced, rigorous and humane account of a tragedy that still casts a shadow over the modern state of Turkey. It is likely to become the definitive reference book on the subject for years to come."--Justin Marozzi, Spectator "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else will very likely be the standard account in English for the 21st Century of the Armenian Genocide and its broader setting. The event itself was the first major genocide in what was to be an entire century of genocides, and Suny is keenly aware of the lessons it can teach about the horrors it initiated. The book is strongly recommended."--Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly "Magisterial."--Brian Bethune, Macleans "[A]n excellent source for readers wishing to learn the history [of the Armenian Genocide]. Suny has provided an exhaustive, dispassionate treatment, situating the Genocide in the centuries-long relationship between Armenian Christians and their Turkish Muslim rulers ... readable and thorough."--Mark Movsesian, First Things "An authoritative, comprehensive study of political, religious, and cultural factors around the terrible events of 1915-16, and an account which avoids the propagandism of both Turkish and Armenian advocates, yet does not flinch from their appalling reality."--Mainstream "[A] fine scholarly study."--Christopher Allmand, The Tablet "Suny weaves this complex story into a nuanced, meticulously researched, and compellingly argued book."--Choice "A remarkable work of history."--Howard Eissenstat, Current History "If you read one book about the 1915 genocide, make this it. Suny is one of the western world's most renowned scholars of the Caucasus region. His account of the fate that befell the Armenians at Ottoman Turkish hands is harrowingly detailed and scrupulously objective."--Tony Barber, Financial Times "A historical masterpiece and a significant benchmark in the study of the Genocide, which will surely become the definitive textbook on the subject... Comprehensive and compelling."--Sossie Kasbarian & Kerem Oktem, Caucasus Survey "The book under review should be of an interest to graduate and postgraduate research students, genocide scholars and historians interested to gaining fresh understandings of the historical dynamics leading to the Armenian genocide, and the connections between imperialism, nationalism and the Armenian genocide during the twentieth century. Additionally, the book provides the groundwork for further debate on how to integrate the Armenian genocide more completely within an understanding of the historical trends of its period."--Eldad Ben-Aharon, H-Soz-Kult "[A] superb work, in this case the best narrative account explaining 'why, when, and how' the Armenian genocide occurred."--Marc David Baer, H-Net Reviews "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else will no doubt become the definitive account of this contested history... This book provides a sophisticated synthesis of recent research without sacrificing depth, nuance or narrative clarity. The fate of the Armenians is situated firmly within wider historiographies of imperial competition and decline, total war and the rise of nation-states... Suny's approach therefore powerfully demonstrates for non-specialists the salience of the fate of the Armenians for understanding much broader historical processes at work at the end of the 'long' nineteenth century."--Jo Laycock, Patterns of Prejudice "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else stands out as a superbly researched, carefully balanced and compelling account... This remarkable book shows how seeking deeper historical truths does not detract from justice: Suny's brilliant, careful and seemingly detached analysis makes the book all the more powerful in this respect."--Gilles Andreani, Survival "A transitional text... Accessible and concise, while still complex enough to do justice to the relationships between Armenians, their rulers and their neighbours over the centuries."--Susan Pattie, Chartist "This stunning book makes a significant contribution to genocide studies but also to Armenian, Russian, European, and international history... Suny's masterful narrative is proof that in great scholarship, empathy and analytical rigor work together."--Doris L. Bergen, Russian ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction xi Sources, Notes, and Transliteration xxiii 1 Empire 1 2 Armenians 31 3 Nation 64 4 Great Powers 91 5 Revolution 141 6 Counterrevolution 174 7 War 208 8 Removal 246 9 Genocide 281 10 Orphaned Nation 328 Conclusion: Thinking about the Unthinkable: Genocide 350 Historians Look at the Armenian Genocide: A Bibliographical Discussion 367 Notes 375 Index 463
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Princeton University Press Eating People is Wrong And Other Essays on Famine
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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Princeton University Press A Century of Genocide Utopias of Race and Nation
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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Princeton University Press Ordinary Jews
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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Princeton University Press Eating People Is Wrong and Other Essays on Famine
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
£25.20
Manchester University Press Crimes Against Humanity Birth of a Concept
Book SynopsisThis is an accessible and informative guide to the evolution of the concept of crimes against humanity- a hugely influential concept which has had a marked impact on modern international politics, law and ethics.Trade Review"Readers will learn not only about the nature of the law, but also about the predicates underlying it, the influences on it, its history and its possible progression as well as its relationship to humanitarian intervention."(Timothy Mawe, University College Cork, Political Studies Review, May 2014)‘This book represents a strong theoretical contribution and informative guide for both academics and practitioners dealing with the subject. In addition, this book is beneficial for a general non-specialist audience as an accessible tool in shedding light on one of the most topical, complicated and contentious issues in the sphere of contemporary international law.’Rustam B. Atadjanov, Issue 1 of 2016 of the Journal of International Criminal Justice, July 2016‘Norman Geras’s Crimes against humanity is an elegantly written and deeply humane work that examines the philosophical basis of one of the core crimes of international law…For a compact, thoughtful, and philosophically sophisticated discussion of a category of crime that has become central to international law and global politics, it would be difficult to do better than this volume.’Andrew Altman, Springer: Criminal Law and Philosophy (2016) -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 Origins and developmentChapter 2 Why against humanity?Chapter 3 A jurisdictional thresholdChapter 4 Humanitarian interventionChapter 5 Utopia into lawAppendix Review of Larry MayBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Human Remains and Mass Violence
Book SynopsisMultidisciplinary in scope, this volume will appeal to readers interested in an understanding of mass violence's aftermath, including researchers in history, anthropology, sociology, law, politics and modern warfare. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Corpses and mass violence: an inventory of the unthinkable – Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus1. The biopolitics of corpses of mass violence and genocide – Yehonatan Alsheh2. Seeking the dead among the living: Embodying the disappeared of the Argentinean dictatorship through law – Sévane Garibian3. The human body: victim, witness, and proof of mass violence – Caroline Fournet4. Moral discourse and action in relation to the corpse: integrative concepts for a criminology of mass violence – Jon Shute5. The disposal of corpses in an ethnicized civil war: Croatia, 1941–45 – Alexander Korb6. Renationalizing bodies? The French search mission for the corpses of deportees in Germany, 1946–58 – Jean-Marc Dreyfus7. From bones-as-evidence to tutelary spirits: The status of bodies in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge genocide – Anne Yvonne Guillou8. Display, concealment and ‘culture’: the disposal of bodies in the 1994 Rwandan genocide – Nigel Eltringham9. An anthropological approach to human remains from the Gulag – Élisabeth Anstett Index
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Manchester University Press Crimes Against Humanity Birth of a Concept
Book SynopsisThis is an accessible and informative guide to the evolution of the concept of crimes against humanity- a hugely influential concept which has had a marked impact on modern international politics, law and ethics.Trade Review‘This book represents a strong theoretical contribution and informative guide for both academics and practitioners dealing with the subject. In addition, this book is beneficial for a general non-specialist audience as an accessible tool in shedding light on one of the most topical, complicated and contentious issues in the sphere of contemporary international law.’Rustam B. Atadjanov, Issue 1 of 2016 of the Journal of International Criminal Justice, July 2016‘Norman Geras’s Crimes against humanity is an elegantly written and deeply humane work that examines the philosophical basis of one of the core crimes of international law…For a compact, thoughtful, and philosophically sophisticated discussion of a category of crime that has become central to international law and global politics, it would be difficult to do better than this volume.’Andrew Altman, Springer: Criminal Law and Philosophy (2016) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Origins and development2. Why against humanity?3. A jurisdictional threshold4. Humanitarian intervention5. Utopia into lawAppendix Review of Larry MayBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Human remains and identification
Book SynopsisA pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc DreyfusPart I: Agents1. Bitter legacies: A war of extermination, grave looting, and culture wars in the American West – Tony Platt 2. Final chapter: Portraying the exhumation and reburial of Polish Jewish Holocaust victims in the pages of yizkor books – Gabriel Finder 3. Bykivnia: How grave robbers, activists, and foreigners ended official silence about Stalin’s mass graves near Kiev – Karel Berkhoff4. The Concealment of Bodies during the Military Dictatorship in Uruguay (1973–84) – Jose Lopez Mazz Part II: Methods 5. State secrets and concealed bodies: exhumations of Soviet-era victims in contemporary Russia – Viacheslav Bituitcki 6. A mere technical exercise? Challenges and technological solutions to the identification of individuals in mass grave scenarios in the modern context – Tim Thompson and Gillian Fowler 7. Disassembling the pieces, reassembling the social: the forensic and political lives of mass graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sari Wastell and Admir JugoPart III: Stakes8. ‘The political lives of dead bodies’ and ‘the disciplines of the dead’: a view from South Africa – Nicky Rousseau9. Bury or display? The politics of exhumation in post genocide Rwanda – Remi Korman10. Remembering the Japanese occupation massacres: mass graves in post-war Malaysia – Frances TayIndex
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Hachette Australia Traitors How Australia and its Allies betrayed
Book SynopsisIn October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would ''pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done''. Nowhere did they say that justice would be selective. But it would prove to be.TRAITORS outlines the treachery of the British, American and Australian governments, who turned a blind eye to those who experimented on Australian prisoners of war. Journalist and bestselling author Frank Walker details how Nazis hired by ASIO were encouraged to settle in Australia and how the Catholic Church, CIA and MI6 helped the worst Nazi war criminals escape justice. While our soldiers were asked to risk their lives for King and country, Allied corporations traded with the enemy; Nazi and Japanese scientists were enticed to work for Australia, the US and UK; and Australia''s own Hollywood hero Errol Flynn
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Hachette Australia Traitors How Australia and its Allies betrayed
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs.In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied powers would ''pursue them to the uttermost ends of the earth and will deliver them to their accusers in order that justice may be done''. Nowhere did they say that justice would be selective. But it would prove to be.Traitors outlines the treachery of the British, American and Australian governments, who turned a blind eye to those who experimented on Australian prisoners of war. Journalist and bestselling author Frank Walker details how Nazis hired by ASIO were encouraged to settle in Australia and how the Catholic Church, CIA and MI6 helped the worst Nazi war criminals escape justice. While our soldiers were asked to risk their lives for King and country, Allied corporations traded withTrade ReviewTo come * Revielle (RSL magazine) *To come * The Weekend Australian *To come * Mother & Baby *To come * YOURS *To come * Sky Radio *
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Hachette Australia Crossing the Line
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR''There is no doubt the truth would have been concealed and our concerns buried without Nick McKenzie''srelentless pursuit of justice.'' SAS Afghanistan veteranWar is brutal. But there are lines that should never be crossed. In mid-2017, whispers of executions, and cover-ups within Australia''s most secretive and elite military unit, the SAS, reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. He and Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal shocking truths about Ben Roberts-Smith VC but plunge the reporters into the defamation trial of the century.For five years, McKenzie led the investigation, waging an epic battle for the truth to be acknowledged. His fight to reveal the real face of Australia''s most famous and
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Pluto Press The Bloody Sunday Inquiry
Book SynopsisThe story of the longest legal proceedings in British history in the raw words of those most intimately involved.Table of ContentsChronology Leading lawyers Introduction 1 Campaign 2 Saville 3 Lawyers 4 Media 5 Heath 6 Soldiers 7 Neighbours 8 IRA 9 London 10 Conclusion Afterword
£22.49
Pluto Press Erasing Iraq The Human Costs of Carnage
Book SynopsisReveals the true human costs of war in Iraq, an unfolding tragedy that has yielded millions of dead and displaced Iraqis since the first Gulf War.Trade Review'If I could only recommend one book that provides a comprehensive overview of both the situation in Iraq today, and the decades of US-backed policy it took to create this nightmare scenario, Erasing Iraq is it' -- Dahr Jamail, independent journalistTable of ContentsIntroduction – Hearts of Stone 1. Iraqis Under Siege 2. Refugee Voices 3. Censoring Civilians 4. Dead Bodies Don’t Count 5. Iraqi Sociocide Postscript – People of No Moment Notes Index
£18.99
Pluto Press Keenie Meenie The British Mercenaries Who Got
Book SynopsisAn explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.Trade Review'An excellent book' - Military History Matters'The pace and narrative are Le Carre-esque, but made even more compelling by the fact that the events are true' - Joe Glenton, ForcesWatch'Lifts the lid on KMS's activities and the men behind it' - Daily Mail'Very, very explosive' - Qasa Alom, BBC Asian Network'The UK's most important investigative journalist' - Mark Curtis, author of Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam'Remarkable' - Paul Rogers, Open Democracy'Miller pilots you into a twilight world, where the pioneers of a rapacious industry blaze a trail of death and destruction across the continents, with a nod and a wink from Whitehall. This is the riveting story of HMG’s dirty secret service: an investigative tour de force' - Jonathan Miller, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Channel 4 News'Draws forensic inferences to create leads and story-trails' -- Irish Times'Compelling and accessible' -- CounterfireTable of ContentsAcronyms and Abbreviations Map of the Arabian Peninsula Map of Sri Lanka Timeline Photographs Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction: Return of the Privateers 1. White Sultan of Oman 2. Bodyguards and Business Building 3. Teenage Rebellions 4. The Upside Down Jeep 5. Oliver North’s British Mercenary 6. The Exploding Hospital 7. Mercenaries and Mujahideen 8. The English Pilot 9. Grenades in Wine Glasses 10. Bugger Off My Land! Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£68.00
Pluto Press Keenie Meenie
Book SynopsisAn explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.Trade Review'An excellent book' - Military History Matters'The pace and narrative are Le Carre-esque, but made even more compelling by the fact that the events are true' - Joe Glenton, ForcesWatch'Lifts the lid on KMS's activities and the men behind it' - Daily Mail'Very, very explosive' - Qasa Alom, BBC Asian Network'The UK's most important investigative journalist' - Mark Curtis, author of Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam'Remarkable' - Paul Rogers, Open Democracy'Miller pilots you into a twilight world, where the pioneers of a rapacious industry blaze a trail of death and destruction across the continents, with a nod and a wink from Whitehall. This is the riveting story of HMG’s dirty secret service: an investigative tour de force' - Jonathan Miller, Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Channel 4 News'Draws forensic inferences to create leads and story-trails' -- Irish Times'Compelling and accessible' -- CounterfireTable of ContentsAcronyms and Abbreviations Map of the Arabian Peninsula Map of Sri Lanka Timeline Photographs Acknowledgements Prologue Introduction: Return of the Privateers 1. White Sultan of Oman 2. Bodyguards and Business Building 3. Teenage Rebellions 4. The Upside Down Jeep 5. Oliver North’s British Mercenary 6. The Exploding Hospital 7. Mercenaries and Mujahideen 8. The English Pilot 9. Grenades in Wine Glasses 10. Bugger Off My Land! Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Law War and Crime
Book SynopsisLaw, War and Crime examines the meaning of war crime trials and their cultural and political effects. Gerry Simpson traces the development the origins of the war crimes field from the outlawing of piracy to contemporary war crimes trials, and situates the phenomenon in the context of broader social and political forces.Trade Review"Masterfully written, blending reflective discussion of overarching theoretical and conceptual questions with authoritative detail drawn from a wide range of cases." International Affairs "A book that could be produced only by someone fully versed in their field ... from argument structure to style, Law, War and Crime is to be recommended." Modern Law Review "A fresh addition to the vast literature on international criminal law precisely because it comprehensively addresses the structural tendencies that characterize international criminal law." Finnish Yearbook of International Law "Offers a significant contribution to the globally important subject of international criminal law by exploring the tensions prevalent in international trials ... it is well written and provides unique insight into considerably challenging issues." Political Studies Review "Opens one's eyes to the use and abuse of criminal law in the context of international politics and war." Law Institute Journal "This is an outstanding book that is a must read for anyone interested in international criminal tribunals. It is sophisticated and erudite in its analysis, beautifully written, concise yet supported with detailed research and well timed." Alex Bellamy, University of Queensland "Law, War and Crime is a substantial scholarly achievement, and I hope it will be politically influential, not so much for any specific position the book espouses, but for its sophistication, care and humanity. Gerry Simpson has lawyerly intellectual virtues that are sorely needed by the international community as it begins to institutionalize criminal law. Simpson writes with discipline instead of mere fervor, and skillfully mediates between factual detail and grand theme. Rarest of all, Simpson understands that unresolvable arguments create discursive spaces where politics, including law, can happen. Bravo!" David A. Westbrook, University at Buffalo Law School "Masterfully written, and hugely topical ? this is a must read for all those interested in international law, foreign affairs and war." Ruti Teitel, New York Law SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Preface 1 1 Law’s Politics: War Crimes Trials and Political Trials 11 2 Law’s Place: Internationalism and Localism 30 3 Law’s Subjects: Individual Responsibility and Collective Guilt 54 4 Law’s Promise: Punishment, Memory and Dissent 79 5 Law’s Anxieties: Show Trials 105 6 Law’s Hegemony: The Juridifi cation of War 132 7 Law’s Origins: Pirates 159 8 Law’s Fate 178 Notes 180 Select Bibliography 194 Index 210
£49.50
Polity Press Law War and Crime
Book SynopsisLaw, War and Crime examines the meaning of war crime trials and their cultural and political effects. Gerry Simpson traces the development the origins of the war crimes field from the outlawing of piracy to contemporary war crimes trials, and situates the phenomenon in the context of broader social and political forces.Trade Review"Masterfully written, blending reflective discussion of overarching theoretical and conceptual questions with authoritative detail drawn from a wide range of cases." International Affairs "A book that could be produced only by someone fully versed in their field ... from argument structure to style, Law, War and Crime is to be recommended." Modern Law Review "A fresh addition to the vast literature on international criminal law precisely because it comprehensively addresses the structural tendencies that characterize international criminal law." Finnish Yearbook of International Law "Offers a significant contribution to the globally important subject of international criminal law by exploring the tensions prevalent in international trials ... it is well written and provides unique insight into considerably challenging issues." Political Studies Review "Opens one's eyes to the use and abuse of criminal law in the context of international politics and war." Law Institute Journal "This is an outstanding book that is a must read for anyone interested in international criminal tribunals. It is sophisticated and erudite in its analysis, beautifully written, concise yet supported with detailed research and well timed." Alex Bellamy, University of Queensland "Law, War and Crime is a substantial scholarly achievement, and I hope it will be politically influential, not so much for any specific position the book espouses, but for its sophistication, care and humanity. Gerry Simpson has lawyerly intellectual virtues that are sorely needed by the international community as it begins to institutionalize criminal law. Simpson writes with discipline instead of mere fervor, and skillfully mediates between factual detail and grand theme. Rarest of all, Simpson understands that unresolvable arguments create discursive spaces where politics, including law, can happen. Bravo!" David A. Westbrook, University at Buffalo Law School "Masterfully written, and hugely topical ? this is a must read for all those interested in international law, foreign affairs and war." Ruti Teitel, New York Law SchoolTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Preface 1 1 Law’s Politics: War Crimes Trials and Political Trials 11 2 Law’s Place: Internationalism and Localism 30 3 Law’s Subjects: Individual Responsibility and Collective Guilt 54 4 Law’s Promise: Punishment, Memory and Dissent 79 5 Law’s Anxieties: Show Trials 105 6 Law’s Hegemony: The Juridifi cation of War 132 7 Law’s Origins: Pirates 159 8 Law’s Fate 178 Notes 180 Select Bibliography 194 Index 210
£17.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict
Book Synopsis* A new volume in Polity s successful War and Conflict in the Modern World series. * Offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of sexual violence across a range of conflict zones.Trade Review"An impressive and important book, gripping but very readably written in a clear style. It should be read by all interested in international politics and human rights." Medicine, Conflict and Survival "Because of its clear and accessible style, gripping content, and intersectional focus, this book should be required reading for scholars and policy-makers as well as students in a number of different areas. While it seems targeted at peace and conflict courses, it would also be excellent in gender studies (clearly introducing gender in the context of armed conflict), human rights (highlighting women's human rights), and international relations generally, (addressing the 'new wars')."Journal of Women, Politics and Policy "An excellent introduction to the broad issues around gender-based violence and armed conflict which will appeal to readers in political science, sociology, development, criminology, peace-building/war studies."Sociological Review "Using richly detailed case studies, Janie Leatherman's Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict presents an important examination of sexual violence in conflict and suggests new ways of conceptualizing and understanding the complex causes and implications of such violence." Journal of the American Medical Association "An important read for researchers and students alike interested in understanding the causes and consequences of wartime sexual violence."Acta Politica"The argument is clear and concise, moving from simple binaries towards a more complex analysis of the causes of sexual violence in armed conflict. Despite the difficult content that is addressed, the book is accessible and would be useful for anyone interested or working in conflict areas."Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict "An essential work dealing with sexual violence in armed conflict, as its argumentation is very strong and does not leave much space for doubting the danger of the phenomenon and the necessity of action." Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "An impressive piece of work. This book deserves its position as the megaphone helping those working in the field to give it its voice."Kelvingrove Review "An important provocation for academics and practitioners working on issues associated with organised political violence." Global Change, Peace and Security "A nuanced, readable and compelling account."Resilience"Leatherman not only reframes our concept of war, but of politics in general. She offers innovative insights in her explorations of legal accountability and social responsibility, of prevention and healing for sexual violence. A must-read book: courageous, groundbreaking, riveting, essential."Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame "This is international relations at its best. Conceptually sophisticated, Janie Leatherman's book elucidates the factors that lie behind sexual violence in armed conflict: inequalities, structural injustices, and hyper-masculinity. I recommend it highly."Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University "This book makes a valuable contribution to understanding the complexity of sexual violence in modern war and to countering the silence and denial associated with it."Patrick W. Kelley, Director, Boards on Global Health and African Science Academy Development, Institute of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Ending the Silence2. Dimensions of Sexual Violence in Conflict3. Sexual Violence and the Onset of Armed Conflict 4. Seeking Safe Space 5. Sexual Violence and the Global Political Economy of War6. From Protection and Accountability to an Ethic of Caring Notes Selected ReadingsIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict
Book Synopsis* A new volume in Polity s successful War and Conflict in the Modern World series. * Offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of sexual violence across a range of conflict zones.Trade Review"An impressive and important book, gripping but very readably written in a clear style. It should be read by all interested in international politics and human rights." Medicine, Conflict and Survival "Because of its clear and accessible style, gripping content, and intersectional focus, this book should be required reading for scholars and policy-makers as well as students in a number of different areas. While it seems targeted at peace and conflict courses, it would also be excellent in gender studies (clearly introducing gender in the context of armed conflict), human rights (highlighting women's human rights), and international relations generally, (addressing the 'new wars')."Journal of Women, Politics and Policy "An excellent introduction to the broad issues around gender-based violence and armed conflict which will appeal to readers in political science, sociology, development, criminology, peace-building/war studies."Sociological Review "Using richly detailed case studies, Janie Leatherman's Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict presents an important examination of sexual violence in conflict and suggests new ways of conceptualizing and understanding the complex causes and implications of such violence." Journal of the American Medical Association "An important read for researchers and students alike interested in understanding the causes and consequences of wartime sexual violence."Acta Politica"The argument is clear and concise, moving from simple binaries towards a more complex analysis of the causes of sexual violence in armed conflict. Despite the difficult content that is addressed, the book is accessible and would be useful for anyone interested or working in conflict areas."Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict "An essential work dealing with sexual violence in armed conflict, as its argumentation is very strong and does not leave much space for doubting the danger of the phenomenon and the necessity of action." Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "An impressive piece of work. This book deserves its position as the megaphone helping those working in the field to give it its voice."Kelvingrove Review "An important provocation for academics and practitioners working on issues associated with organised political violence." Global Change, Peace and Security "A nuanced, readable and compelling account."Resilience"Leatherman not only reframes our concept of war, but of politics in general. She offers innovative insights in her explorations of legal accountability and social responsibility, of prevention and healing for sexual violence. A must-read book: courageous, groundbreaking, riveting, essential."Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame "This is international relations at its best. Conceptually sophisticated, Janie Leatherman's book elucidates the factors that lie behind sexual violence in armed conflict: inequalities, structural injustices, and hyper-masculinity. I recommend it highly."Valentine Moghadam, Purdue University "This book makes a valuable contribution to understanding the complexity of sexual violence in modern war and to countering the silence and denial associated with it."Patrick W. Kelley, Director, Boards on Global Health and African Science Academy Development, Institute of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Ending the Silence2. Dimensions of Sexual Violence in Conflict3. Sexual Violence and the Onset of Armed Conflict 4. Seeking Safe Space 5. Sexual Violence and the Global Political Economy of War6. From Protection and Accountability to an Ethic of Caring Notes Selected ReadingsIndex
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd War Crimes Atrocity and Justice
Book SynopsisWhat do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes trial (for example the solitary, headphone-wearing defendant at the Hague listening with intent to a catalogue of charges) with ?literary justice?: representations in literature, film, and biographical testimony, raising questions about atrocities and justice that juridical proceedings exclude. By engaging with the ambiguities exposed by the artistic and experiential genres, reading them alongside policy and archival documentation and critical theoretical discourses, Shapiro?s War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice challenges traditional notions of ?responsibility? in juridical settings. His comparative readings instead encourage a focus on the conditions of possibility for war crimes as they arise from the actTrade Review"This compelling and original analysis by Michael Shapiro skilfully explores the relationship between violence, life, and the problem of justice. I found it hard to put down, and it will certainly be an important resource for students of film and media studies, literature, cultural studies, contemporary philosophy, and political science." —Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati "We should all read and learn from Michael Shapiro's brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and profoundly illuminating text. His use of movies, literature, and philosophy to expand our consciousness of the deep roots of atrocity, while contrasting what justice means for the imaginative mind with what passes for justice in a court of law, transforms conventional understandings of war crimes." —Richard A. Falk, Princeton University "Michael Shapiro is one of the most perceptive political analysts of our time. He is especially attuned to the dangers of unwarranted certainty and premature judgment, and is often brilliant at making connections between apparently distinct events. The argument is at once astute, provocative, and uplifting." —R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria, Canada and PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"Shapiro's voice is signature: few otyher range so widely across genres, locales, events, and sources of artistic and conceptual inspiration; few pursue the deterritorializing promise of transversal relations so insistently."—Theory & Event"Through War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice, Michael J. Shapiro challenges our traditional understanding about war crimes and atrocities through the skilful use of selections from modern literature and the world of films."—Journal of Defence Studies"Dr. Shapiro's book deservedly won the 2015 Easton Prize for Political Theory from the American Political Science Association. This approach to modern politics, especially violence and the devolution of civil society, is an insightful and stimulating tool for scholars in many fields, including literature, politics and history."—Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century LiteratureTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 The Global Justice Dispositif 13 2 Atrocity, Securitization, and Exuberant Lines of Flight 50 3 What does a Weapon See? 80 4 Borderline Justice 119 5 Justice and the Archives 154 Notes 186 Index 210
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd War Crimes Atrocity and Justice
Book SynopsisWhat do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood? In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes trial (for example the solitary, headphone-wearing defendant at the Hague listening with intent to a catalogue of charges) with ?literary justice?: representations in literature, film, and biographical testimony, raising questions about atrocities and justice that juridical proceedings exclude. By engaging with the ambiguities exposed by the artistic and experiential genres, reading them alongside policy and archival documentation and critical theoretical discourses, Shapiro?s War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice challenges traditional notions of ?responsibility? in juridical settings. His comparative readings instead encourage a focus on the conditions of possibility for war crimes as they arise from the actTrade Review"This compelling and original analysis by Michael Shapiro skilfully explores the relationship between violence, life, and the problem of justice. I found it hard to put down, and it will certainly be an important resource for students of film and media studies, literature, cultural studies, contemporary philosophy, and political science." —Adrian Parr, University of Cincinnati "We should all read and learn from Michael Shapiro's brilliantly conceived, strikingly original, and profoundly illuminating text. His use of movies, literature, and philosophy to expand our consciousness of the deep roots of atrocity, while contrasting what justice means for the imaginative mind with what passes for justice in a court of law, transforms conventional understandings of war crimes." —Richard A. Falk, Princeton University "Michael Shapiro is one of the most perceptive political analysts of our time. He is especially attuned to the dangers of unwarranted certainty and premature judgment, and is often brilliant at making connections between apparently distinct events. The argument is at once astute, provocative, and uplifting." —R.B.J. Walker, University of Victoria, Canada and PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"Shapiro's voice is signature: few otyher range so widely across genres, locales, events, and sources of artistic and conceptual inspiration; few pursue the deterritorializing promise of transversal relations so insistently."—Theory & Event"Through War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice, Michael J. Shapiro challenges our traditional understanding about war crimes and atrocities through the skilful use of selections from modern literature and the world of films."—Journal of Defence Studies"Dr. Shapiro's book deservedly won the 2015 Easton Prize for Political Theory from the American Political Science Association. This approach to modern politics, especially violence and the devolution of civil society, is an insightful and stimulating tool for scholars in many fields, including literature, politics and history."—Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century LiteratureTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1 The Global Justice Dispositif 13 2 Atrocity, Securitization, and Exuberant Lines of Flight 50 3 What does a Weapon See? 80 4 Borderline Justice 119 5 Justice and the Archives 154 Notes 186 Index 210
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Is Genocide
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
£49.50
Polity Press What is Genocide
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
£17.09
The History Press Ltd Anatomy of a Massacre
Book SynopsisThere isn’t any triumph, there isn’t any happy ending in the story of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, but there is a resolute affirmation of the continuing strength of the human spirit.At dawn on 12 August 1944, German SS troops arrived in the Tuscan mountain village of Sant’Anna di Stazzema.
£19.00
The History Press Ltd Silent Village
Book SynopsisThe definitive history of Oradour-sur-Glane, a village ripped apart by tragedy in Nazi-occupied France
£15.19
Headline Publishing Group Kill Switch
Book SynopsisFrom surviving a horrific terrorist attack in Northern Ireland, to the violence of the Gulf War and an assault course of harrowing experiences in Iraq, Bosnia and Columbia, Major Bill Shaw, MBE, had seen it all.But Bill''s strength and courage was tested to its absolute limits when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Posted in Afghanistan after two years in Iraq, Bill was responsible for the safety of four hundred men in a full-scale danger zone in one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Bill had long accepted that each day could be his last. But he never expected to find his own life at risk under a corrupt legal system. Thrown into prison and forced to share a cramped, vermin-infested cell, Bill had no idea when, or even if, he would see his family again.This is the incredible true story of a brave soldier who survived some of the toughest war zones in the world only to face the nightmare of being wrongfully imprisoned a very long way fr
£10.44
Hamilton Books Healing through the Bones Empowerment and the
Book SynopsisThis study explores an effect of violent conflict in CyprusâMissing Personsâand the process of exhumations. By interviewing experts on the Cypriot conflict about the exhumations process, Fics has revealed the challenges and successes that may arise for sustainable peace and healing in Cyprus and beyond.Trade ReviewThere are many challenges to building sustainable peace and reconciliation in societies desperately trying to emerge from a violent and traumatic past. As politicians negotiate peace accords, people in the grassroots need to heal from the trauma of violence. Kris Fics’ original and innovative study of the return of the remains of the dead to loved ones in Cyprus after many years breaks new ground in the Peace and Conflict Studies field. Returning the Missing to their loved ones brings about the closure, healing, and reconciliation that is necessary to build a comprehensive and sustainable peace, as even the bones have their stories to tell. -- Sean Byrne, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Director, Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, St. Paul’s College, University of ManitobaFollowing decades of political manipulations on the issue of Missing Persons in the Cyprus conflict, this revealing work focuses on the constructive and cooperative process of exhumations and identifications carried out by a bicommunal, nongovernmental committee of dedicated Greek and Turkish Cypriots. The writing is accessible and engaging for the most part, supported by personal journal entries chronicling the author’s experience in completing this challenging piece of field research, including serving as a volunteer worker for the committee. The findings from qualitative interviews with members of the committee are connected to relevant scholarly literature on the need for certainty, bicommunal relations, and storytelling in order to develop a richer meaning of the process of exhumation and its effects. The work thus illuminates how the recovery of missing loved ones provides a model of positive intercommunal interaction, and serves as an essential element of reconciliation and sustainable peace that is empowering at both the individual and the collective levels -- Ronald J. Fisher, Professor Emeritus of International Peace and Conflict Resolution, School of International Service, American University, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason UniversityIn this powerful volume Kristian Fics explores the personal, social and political impact of the ongoing bicommunal process of exhumations in Cyprus, led by the Committee on Missing Persons. His study reveals that addressing the issue of persons missing from Cyprus' history of inter-ethnic conflict—that can only be done through exhumation and confirmation of the identity of the dead—not only restores identity to the missing, but addresses the ambiguous loss that defined the trauma suffered by their families. More than this, addressing the issue of Missing Persons has collective impacts, removing an issue that continues to divide people in the most emotional way, and offering routes to reconciliation and peacebuilding. Fics' book synthesizes the psychological and the sociological to permit the central importance of the addressing of the issue of Missing Persons in post-conflict contexts to emerge. -- Simon Robins, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Human Rights, University Of York, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Journal Entry 1.2 Introduction 1.3 History of Cyprus Conflict 1.4 Purpose Statement 1.5 Significance of the Study 1.6 Limitations of the Study 1.7 Context of the Study 1.7.1 Missing Persons in a Global Context 1.7.2 Missing Persons in a Cypriot Context and Some Challenges for the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus 1.8 Framework of the Study 1.9 Conclusion Chapter 2 Literature Review 2.1 Journal Entry 2.2 Introduction 2.3 Basic Human Needs 2.4 Psychological Ideas and Trauma 2.5 Peacebuilding as Sustainable Reconciliation and Restorative Justice 2.6 Restorative Justice 2.7 Storytelling 2.8 Conclusion Chapter 3 Methodology 3.1 Journal Entry 3.2 Introduction 3.3 Research Location 3.4 Qualitative Research Strategy 3.5 Semi-structured Interviewing 3.6 Role of Researcher 3.7 Data Gathering Techniques 3.8 Data Analysis and Grounded Theory 3.9 Study Participants 3.10 Problems/Challenges Encountered Conducting Research 3.11 Conclusion Chapter 4 Uncertainty and Psychology 4.1 Journal Entry 4.2 Introduction 4.3 Uncertainty and Knowledge of Death 4.4 Uncertainty and Closure 4.5 Uncertainty and Burial 4.6 Uncertainty and Time 4.7 Psychology and Time 4.8 Psychological Healing and Catharsis 4.9 Psychological Relief 4.10 Psychological Closure 4.11 Psychologically Shared Suffering 4.12 Victimization and Psychological Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma 4.13 Conclusion and Summary of Key Findings Chapter 5 Bicommunal Relations 5.1 Journal Entry 5.2 Introduction 5.3 Percentage of the Missing 5.4 List Agreement and Bicommunal Challenges 5.5 Bicommunal Contact and Time 5.6 Bicommunal CMP Organization and Inter-ethnic Friendship Development 5.7 Bicommunal Leadership 5.8 Conclusion and Summary of Key Findings Chapter 6 Storytelling—Even the Dead Have a Voice: The Bones Are Telling a Story 6.1 Journal Entry 6.2 Introduction 6.3 What is Storytelling? 6.4 The Bones as Story 6.5 Storytelling and Information 6.6 Constructive Storytelling 6.7 Storytelling and Historical Non-Reoccurrence of Violence 6.8 Conclusion and Summary of Key Findings Chapter 7 A Common Future 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Empowerment and Uncertainty 7.3 Challenges of the Process of Exhumations 7.4 Conclusion and Future Research References Appendix A Interview Questions Appendix B Diagram: 1) Empowerment or Uncertainty Appendix C Diagram: 2) Challenges of the Process of Exhumations Appendix D Map of Cyprus
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Hamilton Books Worse than Death Reflections on the Uyghur
Book SynopsisUyghurs are descendents of Turkic peoples, currently facing genocide committed against them in their homeland, East Turkistan. This land has been colonized by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, creating a police state and renamed Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). This book explains how Uyghur rights have been diminishing under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has recently escalated into the cultural genocide of Uyghurs. Since Xi Jinping became president of the People's Republic of China in 2012, he has clearly defined his political agenda towards Uyghurs of implementing the Four Breaks intended to break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins. The situation has now rapidly deteriorated. Millions of Uyghur families have been separated with an estimated 1 million Uyghurs being indiscriminately placed in concentration camps, under the guise of re-education. Xi has justified this as a fight against the Three Evils (terrorism, separatism and religious extremism). Uyghurs are subject to forced thought reform, torture, rape, organ harvesting, slave labor, and ultimately death in the shrouded secrecy of the camps. For Uyghurs in exile, they face an endless uncertainty, cut off from their families back home, and are harassed by Chinese security agents with threats against their family back home if they speak out against these atrocities. The world has to date largely remained silent over this genocide due to economic ties with China. In reflecting upon this situation the question remains: Who amongst you has the courage to speak up and act against this totalitarian regime of the Chinese Communist Party, committing one of the worst genocides and human rights atrocities of the 21st Century?Table of ContentsForewordBy Professor William DesmondChapter 1Why Do I Write This Book?Chapter 2From Oblivion to ExposureChapter 3Four Modalities of Being UyghurChapter 4The Creation of a Culture of KillingChapter 5Break Your Generations, Break Your RootsChapter 6Two-facedness and Ideological VirusesChapter 7Morality of GenocideChapter 8World as a BystanderChapter 9Beyond Death and DestructionBibliographyAbout the Author
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Trawniki Guards Foot Soldiers of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisA companion to volume 1, which described the wartime role of the "Trawniki Men," volume 2 follows up with a history of the international search for retribution in the postwar era.
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Devastation of the Indies
Book SynopsisFive hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the firstand most insistentvoices raised in that debate was that of a Spanish priest, Bartolomé de Las Casas, acquintance of Cortes and Pizarro and shipmate of Velasquez on the voyage to conquer Cuba. In 1552, after forty years of witnessingand opposingcountless acts of brutality in the new Spanish colonies, Las Casas returned to Seville, where he published a book that caused a storm of controversy that persists to the present day. The Devastation of the Indies is an eyewitness account of the first modern genocid, a story of greed, hypocrisy, and cruelties so grotesque as to rival the worst of our own century. Las Casas writes of men, women and children burned alive thirteen at a time in memoery of Our Redeemer and his twelve apostles. He describes butcher shops that sold human flesh for dog food (Give me a quartTrade ReviewBartolome de Las Casas's critical account of the impact that the Spaniards had on the new continent has long been recognized as one of the major sources for the study on the interaction between whites and American Indians during the sixteenth century. The present translation of The Devastation of the Indies is based on the 1965 edition and appeared for the first time in 1974. The reprint is now accompanied by a penetrating introduction by Bill M. Donovan... All this makes the introduction to a provocative and stimulating essay, preparing the reader for the actual text by Las Casas. -- Albrecht Classen Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association [Does] justice to the heartfelt message of Bartolome de las Casas. British Bulletin of PublicationsTable of ContentsIntroduction The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief AccountNote On The Translation Of The Brevissima RelaciónNotes
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University of Toronto Press War Crimes and the Culture of Peace
Book SynopsisIn 1996, Louise Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Reflecting on these experiences, she argues in War Crimes and the Culture of Peace that the level of public awareness and understanding of the significance of these events is minimal in part as a result of the way in which international criminal law is practiced. Justice Arbour contends that previous efforts to unite concepts of international law and criminal law in the practice of these tribunals are evolving, and suggests that the ties between personal criminal accountability and peace should be central to the decisions made in the future concerning procedural models for the permanent International War Crimes Tribunals. As a result, the public might better understand the context and causes of such crime, and the notion of crime as a breach of the peace would be made central to these tr
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