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The Historiography of Genocide

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  1. Dan Stone

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Dan Stone
      Pages 1-6

  3. Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Defining Genocide

      • Ann Curthoys, John Docker
      Pages 9-41

    3. Problems in Comparative Genocide Scholarship

      • Anton Weiss-Wendt
      Pages 42-70

    4. Conceptions of Genocide and Perceptions of History

      • David Moshman
      Pages 71-92

    5. Collective Violence and the Shifting Categories of Communal Riots, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide

      • Veena Das
      Pages 93-127

    6. Cultural Genocide in Australia

      • Robert van Krieken
      Pages 128-155

    7. Genocide and Modernity

      • A. Dirk Moses
      Pages 156-193

    8. Religion and Genocide: A Historiographical Survey

      • Doris L. Bergen
      Pages 194-227

    9. Gender and Genocide

      • Adam Jones
      Pages 228-252

    10. Prosecuting Genocide

      • William A. Schabas
      Pages 253-270

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
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    2. Genocide in the Americas

      • Alfred A. Cave
      Pages 273-295

    3. Decent Disposal: Australian Historians and the Recovery of Genocide

      • Tony Barta
      Pages 296-322

    4. Colonial Genocide: The Herero and Nama War (1904–8) in German South West Africa and Its Significance

      • Jürgen Zimmerer
      Pages 323-343

    5. The Armenian Genocide

      • Donald Bloxham, Fatma Müge Göçek
      Pages 344-372

    6. The Holocaust and Its Historiography

      • Dan Stone
      Pages 373-399

    7. The Crimes of the Stalin Regime: Outline for an Inventory and Classification

      • Nicolas Werth
      Pages 400-419

    8. The 1947 Partition of India

      • Ian Talbot
      Pages 420-437
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The Historiography of Genocide is an indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides.

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'Taken as a survey of existing knowledge and our attempts to understand, it provides essential reference points for scholars and guides for students. As a whole, the volume is more comprehensive than any of the major single-authored works which have appeared in recent years; it achieves its goal of providing a guide to the literature as well as to the historical record. Second, the book enables us to evaluate the state of genocide historiography and studies. It shows us the deep contradictions between what we may call the 'old' genocide studies and the new approaches, which themselves face formidable challenges in developing coherent historical interpretations.' - Martin Shaw, Journal of Genocide Research

'This excellent book represents a substantial achievement by the editor. The individual essays are generally well-balanced and informative without being unnecessarily formulaic. They go beyond the remit of the title to actually offer new syntheses of the events as well as worthwhile assessments of existing interpretative literature. On the whole, this collection offers excellent value for teachers and scholars. Professor Stone has built on the strong foundations laid in his earlier edited work on the Historiography of the Holocaust, which also offered a mixture of interpretation and synthesis.' - Cathie Carmichael, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies

'...Dan Stone's volume is the best proof that Genocide Studies are constantly growing, lively, multifaceted, and inspiring for many scholars, coming from very different backgrounds and perspectives. And it is a welcome and indispensable guide through the recent developments, the concepts, and discussions'

-Dirk Rupnow, Institute for Contemporary History

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Dan Stone

About the editor

TONY BARTA Research Associate, La Trobe University, Australia DORIS L. BERGEN Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, Canada DONALD BLOXHAM Reader in History, University of Edinburgh, UK ALFRED A. CAVE Professor of History, University of Toledo, USA ANN CURTHOYS Manning Clark Professor of History, Australian National University, Australia VEENA DAS Kriger-Eisenhower Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, USA JOHN DOCKER Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia FATMA MÜGE GÖÇEK Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA ROBERT M. HAYDEN Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public& International Affairs and Director of the Center for Russian& East European Studies at, University of Pittsburgh, USA ROBERT K. HITCHCOCK Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA ADAM JONES Visiting Fellow, Yale Genocide Studies Program, USA BEN KIERNAN A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Professor of International and Area Studies at Yale University, USA THOMAS E. KOPERSKI Humanities Researcher and Postgraduate student, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA JEAN-LOUIS MARGOLIN Senior Lecturer in History, University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France A. DIRK MOSES Lecturer in History, University of Sydney, Australia DAVID MOSHMAN Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska, USA VICTORIA SANFORD Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA WILLIAM A. SCHABAS Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland DAN STONE Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK SCOTT STRAUS Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA IAN TALBOT Director of the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, University of Southampton, UK ROBERT VAN KRIEKEN Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia ANTON WEISS-WENDT Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities Olso, Norway NICOLAS WERTH Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France JÜRGEN ZIMMERER Lecturer in International History, University of Sheffield, UK

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