An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide
"When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.
Название: Politics, violence, memory ISBN: 1501766759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501766756 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4508.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Politics, Violence, Memory highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians. Until recently social scientists largely ignored the Holocaust despite the centrality of these tragic events to many of their own concepts and theories.
In Politics, Violence, Memory the editors bring together contributions to understanding the Holocaust from a variety of disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, and public health. The chapters examine the sources and measurement of antisemitism; explanations for collaboration, rescue, and survival; competing accounts of neighbor-on-neighbor violence; and the legacies of the Holocaust in contemporary Europe. Politics, Violence, Memory brings new data to bear on these important concerns and shows how older data can be deployed in new ways to understand the "index case" of violence in the modern world.
Описание: The Cambridge World History of Violence presents readers with an overview of the nature and the extent of violence across time and place, examining its causes, and considering the reasons for particular levels of violence at given moments of history. All four volumes are written by contributors who are experts in their fields.
Genocide in the Carpathians presents the history of Subcarpathian Rus', a multiethnic and multireligious borderland in the heart of Europe. This society of Carpatho-Ruthenians, Jews, Magyars, and Roma disintegrated under pressure of state building in interwar Czechoslovakia and, during World War II, from the onslaught of the Hungarian occupation. Charges of "foreignness" and disloyalty to the Hungarian state linked antisemitism to xenophobia and national security anxieties. Genocide unfolded as a Hungarian policy, and Hungarian authorities committed mass robbery, deportations, and killings against all non-Magyar groups in their efforts to recast the region as part of an ethnonational "Greater Hungary."
In considering the events that preceded the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, this book reorients our view of the Holocaust not simply as a German drive for continent-wide genocide, but as a truly international campaign of mass murder, related to violence against non-Jews unleashed by projects of state and nation building. Focusing on both state and society, Raz Segal shows how Hungary's genocidal attack on Subcarpathian Rus' obliterated not only tens of thousands of lives but also a diverse society and way of life that today, from the vantage point of our world of nation-states, we find difficult to imagine.
Автор: Jones, Adam Название: Genocide ISBN: 1032028106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032028101 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Ther, Philipp Название: The Dark side of nation-states ISBN: 1785331957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785331954 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 4796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general. Almost all mass-scale population removals were rationally and precisely organized and carried out in cold blood, with revenge, hatred and other strong emotions playing only a minor role. This book not only considers the majority of population removals which occurred in Eastern Europe, but is also an encompassing, comparative study including Western Europe, interrogating the motivations of Western statesmen and their involvement in large-scale population removals. It also reaches beyond the European continent and considers the reverberations of colonial rule and ethnic cleansing in the former British colonies.
Автор: Silvio Pons Название: The Cambridge History of Communism 3 Volume Hardback Set ISBN: 1316634582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316634585 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 51480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comprehensive study demonstrating the centrality of Communism to the history of the twentieth century from a global perspective.
Автор: Beaujard Philippe Название: Worlds of the Indian Ocean ISBN: 1108424651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108424653 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 16315.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Indian Ocean replaces Europe at the center of the globalization of the pre-modern world in this second volume examination of how the region`s networks of trade, labor, technology, institutions, ideas and culture shaped a pre-modern world system.
Автор: Jarman R Название: Japan 14 Volume Hardback Set ISBN: 1788066782 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788066785 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 776160.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This publication provides a virtually complete collection of British diplomatic reports on Japan from 1906 to 1970, previously unknown, inaccessible or withheld. The reports detail the phase of imperial expansion and the territorial conflicts with Russia and China are clearly documented and analysed from the British diplomatic viewpoint. The most detailed narrative refers to relations with the British, including the question of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1921, and political and economic questions throughout the pre-war and modern period. The post-war reports make numerous observations on Japanese-American relations, particularly during the period of US occupation. Economic reports are found regularly from 1930 to 1963, and cover budget affairs, industrial production, shipping and trade figures as well as comment and analysis. The pre-war reports examine Japan's capacity to finance the continuous military activity of the 1930s; later reports reflect the dynamic post-war economic recovery, and the formation and organisation of trade unions.
Автор: Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson, Matthew Trundle Название: The Cambridge World History of Violence ISBN: 1107120128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107120129 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 23285.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covering the Palaeolithic through to the end of classical antiquity, this volume moves beyond the study of ancient warfare alone, taking a broader look at violence on a world-wide scale. Volume 1 will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
Автор: Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, Caroline Dodds Pennock Название: The Cambridge World History of Violence ISBN: 1107119111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107119116 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 23285.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Violence is a universal theme in human history and a major problem facing society today. In order to confront it, it is essential that we understand it. This volume shows how many of the problems that the world faces today are rooted in the first age of globalisation: the period between 1500 and 1800.
Автор: Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn, Jay Winter Название: The Cambridge World History of Violence ISBN: 1107151562 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107151567 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 23285.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why do humans continue to inflict both mass and interpersonal violence upon each other? This comprehensive, global study examines violence and its consequences as produced in nation-states, colonies, institutions, and families alongside analyses of its commemoration and representation and significance in leisure.
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