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Book SynopsisVolume I provides thematic overviews and multiple case studies illuminating the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and connections linking various cases. It will be of interest to students and historians of the prehistoric period, as well as political scientists and human rights associations.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of maps; List of tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; General editor's introduction to the series: Genocide. Its causes, components, connections and continuing challenges Ben Kiernan; Introduction to volume I T. M. Lemos, Tristan S. Taylor and Ben Kiernan; Part I. Themes of Genocide through History: 1. Genocide before the state? Helle Vandkilde; 2. The religion-genocide nexus Steven L. Jacobs; 3. Genocide and gender: dynamics and consequences Adam Jones and Wendy Lower; 4. Genocide, starvation and famine Bridget Conley and Alex de Waal; 5. Climate, violence and ethnic conflict in the ancient world Francis Ludlow, Chris Morris and Conor Kostick; Part II. The Ancient World: 6. Genocide in ancient Israelite and early Jewish sources T. M. Lemos; 7. Genocide in ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze and Iron Ages T. M. Lemos and Seth Richardson; 8. Urbicide in the Ancient Greek world, 480–330 BCE Paul Cartledge; 9. Violence, emotions and justice in the Hellenistic period Michael Champion; 10. A tale of three cities: the Roman destruction of Carthage, Corinth and Numantia Tristan S. Taylor; 11. Caesar's Gallic genocide: a case study in ancient mass violence Tristan S. Taylor; 12. Genocidal perspectives in the Roman Empire's approach towards the Jews Gil Gambash; 13. Religious violence in the later Roman Empire: the Tetrarchic persecutions, 302–313 CE Carl J. Rice; 14. Genocide, extermination and mass killing in Chinese history Victoria Tin-bor Hui; Part III. The Medieval World and Early Imperial Expansions: 15. William the Conqueror's harrying of the North, 1069–70: What, if not genocide? C. P. Lewis; 16. Genocidal massacres of Jews in Medieval Western Europe (1096–1392) Maya Soifer Irish; 17. Crusaders and mass killing at Jerusalem in 1099 Thomas A. Fudge; 18. The Albigensian Crusade and the early inquisitions into heretical depravity, 1208–1246 Mark Gregory Pegg; 19. Mongol genocides of the thirteenth century Timothy May; 20. Việt Nam and the genocide of Champa, 1470–1509 George Dutton; 21. Genocidal massacres in Medieval India Raziuddin Aquil; 22. Mass extermination in prehistoric Andean South America Danielle Kurin; 23. The Spanish destruction of the Canary Islands: a template for the Caribbean genocide Igor Pérez Tostado; 24. Genocidal massacres in the Spanish conquest of the Americas: Xaragua, Cholula, and Toxcatl (1503–1519) Harald E. Braun; Index.
