Volume I offers an introductory survey of the phenomenon of genocide. The first five chapters examine its major recurring themes, while the further nineteen are specific case studies. The combination of thematic and empirical approaches illuminates the origins and long history of genocide, its causes, consistent characteristics, and the connections linking various cases from earliest times to the early modern era. The themes examined include the roles of racism, the state, religion, gender prejudice, famine, and climate crises, as well as the role of human decision-making in the causation of genocide. The case studies cover events on four continents, ranging from prehistoric Europe and the Andes to ancient Israel, Mesopotamia, the early Greek world, Rome, Carthage, and the Mediterranean. It continues with the Norman Conquest of England's North, the Crusades, the Mongol Conquests, medieval India and Viet Nam, and a panoramic study of pre-modern China, as well as the Spanish conquests of the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, and Mexico.
Papildus informācija
Documents the general characteristics and early history of genocide, from global prehistory to ancient Mesopotamia to the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
List 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, 480330 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, 302313 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, 106970: What, if not genocide? C. P.
Lewis;
16. Genocidal massacres of Jews in Medieval Western Europe (10961392)
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, 12081246 Mark Gregory Pegg;
19. Mongol genocides of the
thirteenth century Timothy May;
20. Vit Nam and the genocide of Champa,
14701509 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 (15031519) Harald E.
Braun; Index.
Ben Kiernan is the Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and founding Director of Yale's Genocide Studies Program. His book Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007) has won numerous prizes, including a gold medal for the best work of history, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association. T. M. Lemos is Professor of Hebrew Bible at Huron University College and a member of the graduate school faculty and the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at the University of Western Ontario. Tristan S. Taylor is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England. He was a Visiting Fellow in Genocide Studies in the Yale University Genocide Studies Program in 201314 and was awarded a UNE Partnerships Grant for his work on comparative genocide studies in the Roman world. Ben Kiernan is the Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and founding Director of Yale's Genocide Studies Program. His book Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007) has won numerous prizes, including a gold medal for the best work of history, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association.
