The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 3, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020

A comprehensive global account of the past 'century of genocide', from the Holocaust to Bosnia, and from Stalin to the Rohingyas.

Ben Kiernan (Edited by), Wendy Lower (Edited by), Norman Naimark (Edited by), Scott Straus (Edited by)

9781108487078, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 May 2023

820 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 4.3 cm, 1.42 kg

Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it continues with a survey of the genocide studies field, racism and antisemitism. The four parts cover the impacts of Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse, and Revolution; the crises of World War Two; the Cold War; and Globalization. Twenty-eight scholars with expertise in specific regions document thirty genocides from 1918 to 2021, in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The cases range from the Armenian Genocide to Maoist China, from the Holocaust to Stalin's Ukraine, from Indonesia to Guatemala, Biafra, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and finally the contemporary fate of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and the ISIS slaughter of Yazidis in Iraq. The volume ends with a chapter on the strategies for genocide prevention moving forward.

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Contributors
Introduction to Volume III Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark and Scott Straus
Part I. Racism, Total War, Imperial Collapse and Revolution: 1. Prelude to genocide: humanitarianism, racism and antisemitism in the early twentieth century Ben Kiernan
2. War and genocide in the twentieth century Jay Winter
3. The Armenian genocide: an overview Taner Akçam
4. Australia's stolen generations, 1914–2021 Joanna Cruickshank and Crystal McKinnon
5. Eurocentrism, silence, and memory of genocide in colonial Libya, 1929–1934 Ali Ahmida
6. Spain 1936–1945: coup d'état and genocidal practices in the destruction of 'anti-Spain' Antonio Míguez Macho
7. Genocide in Stalinist Russia and Ukraine, 1930–1938 Norman Naimark
8. The famine in Soviet Kazakhstan Sarah Isabel Cameron
Part II. World War Two: 9. From persecution to genocide: the evolution of the Nazi anti-Jewish policy (1938–1942) Florent Brayard
10. Systematic and ad hoc persecution and mass murder in the Holocaust: killings in Eastern Europe outside the Camps Mary Fulbrook
11. Jewish life and death under Nazi rule across Europe and around the globe Debórah Dwork
12. The Nazi camps and killing centres Dieter Pohl
13. State violence during World War II Raz Segal
14. The genocide of the Romani people in Europe Jennifer Illuzzi
15. The Nazis and the slavs: poles and Soviet POWs Norman Naimark
16. The Nanjing massacre Yuki Tanaka
Part III. The Nation-state System During the Cold War: 17. Genocide in Latin America, 1950–2000 Daniel Feierstein and Lucrecia Molinari
18. China under Mao, 1949–1976 Frank Dikötter
19. Half a century of genocide and extermination: Indonesia, 1965–66, East Timor, 1975–99, and West Papua, 1963–2020 Geoffrey Robinson
20. Secession and genocide in the Republic of Biafra, 1966–70 Samuel Fury Childs Daly
21. Bangladesh, 1971 Gary Bass
22. The genocides in Cambodia, 1975–1979 Ben Kiernan
23. The Guatemalan genocide Roddy Brett
24. Mass violence and the Kurds: from the late Ottoman empire to ISIS U?ur Ümit Üngör
25. Vulnerable peoples in the contemporary era: an overview Mark Levene
Part IV. Globalization and Genocide since the Cold War: 26. Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1995 Edina Be?irevi?
27. The Rwandan genocide in context Scott Straus
28. Genocides in the Sudans Clémence Pinaud
29. Elements of genocidal ideology in Al Qaeda and its offshoots, including Islamic State Hayat Alvi
30. The Yazidi genocide Sareta Ashraph
31. Genocide in Myanmar: the assault on the Rohingya, 2010–2019 Azeem Ibrahim
32. A short history of genocide prevention across the long twentieth century Scott Straus
Index.

Subject Areas: Human rights [JPVH], Genocide & ethnic cleansing [HBTZ], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]