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Genocide Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)

Genocide By Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)

Genocide by Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)

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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. Designed as a text for undergraduate and graduate students from a range of disciplines it will also appeal to non-specialists and general readers.

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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction by Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)

* A comprehensive introduction to Genocide explaining the theories, concepts and interpretations of this controversial subject as well as providing lots of empirical case studies.

* Heavily illustrated throughout with over a hundred maps, figures and photographs.

* Highly regarded for its readability, breadth, coverage of a wide range of social science interpretations, empirical case studies and pedagogy.

* A book that genuninely appeals to a huge range of areas of study and degree programes - political science, international studies, history, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, criminology, PPE, law, war, human rights, development, sociology, racism, colonialism and neo-colonialism - which study this as a module.

* The author maintains a companion website http://www.genocidetext.net/ with many additional resources including text excerpts, a bibliography, filmography, material for teachers and instructors and weblinks.

About Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)

Adam Jones, PhD, was born in Singapore in 1963 and grew up in England and Canada. He is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan in Kelowna, BC. He has published various sole-authored and edited books on genocide and related themes, including Sites of Genocide (2022) and The Scourge of Genocide: Essays and Reflections (2013), as well as works on mass media and political transition. Jones has lived and/or traveled in over 100 countries on every populated continent. His Global Photo Archive of more than 26,000 Creative Commons images has been used online by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, The Guardian, and The Atlantic, among many others (see www.flickr.com/adam_jones/albums/). He has served as an expert consultant for the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect.

Table of Contents

Part One: Overview 1 The Origins of Genocide 2 State and Empire; War and Revolution Part Two: Case Studies 3 Genocides of Indigenous Peoples 4 The Ottoman Destruction of Christian Minorities 5 Stalin and Mao 6 The Jewish Holocaust 7 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge 8 Bosnia and Kosovo 9 Genocide in Africa's Great Lakes Region Part three: Social Science Perspectives 10 Psychological Perspectives 11 The Sociology and Anthropology of Genocide 12 Political Science and International Relations 13 Gendering Genocide Part four: The Future of Genocide 14 Memory, Forgetting, and Denial 15 Justice, Truth, and Redress 16 Strategies of Intervention and Prevention.

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NGR9781032028101
9781032028101
1032028106
Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction by Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)
Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada)
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2023-11-30
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