This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twent
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figure
Editors’ Preface
List of Contributors
PART I: Genocide and Imperialism
1. The Genocidal French Conquest of Algeria, 1830–1847
2. Assimilation and Dispossession: Cultural Genocide of the Ainu
3. The First Genocide of the 20th Century: The OvaHerero of German South-West Africa (1904–1908)
PART II: War and Genocide
4. Biafra and the Politics of Naming Genocide
5. The Yezidi Genocide: An Evolution of Harm
6. A Hierarchy of Political Violence: War and the Question of Genocide in Yemen
PART III: State Repression, Military Dictatorships, and Genocide
7. The Role of the 1972 Genocide in Burundi and Its Ramification in the Great Lake Region
8. Genocide in Argentina?: Social, Political, and Legal Struggles to Frame State Crimes during the Last Military Dictatorship
9. Politics, Class, and Genocide: El Salvador and Colombia in Hemispheric Context
PART IV: Human-Caused Famine, Attrition, and Genocide
10. Starvation, Dehumanization, and Genocide: Moscow’s Imperialism and the Ukrainian Holodomor (1932–1933)
11. Framing Famine: British Colonialism and Bengal
12. China’s Great Famine: A Man-Made Calamity (1958–1962)
13. Genocide by Attrition of the Nuba Mountains People (1989–Mid 1990s)
Index