A Cultural History of Genocide in the Era of Total War

Professor Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-46979-2 (ISBN)

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The period between the two World Wars was characterized by an acceleration of mass violence across the world. Developments in technology, communications, ideology, global political and economic integration, and the organization of society greatly expanded the power and reach of states while radicalizing ideologies of domination and control. Two major 20th-century genocides, the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews, are the terrible bookends of this period; they were preceded and informed by colonial genocides, such as the genocide of Herero and Nama peoples in German South West Africa from 1904 -1914, and by ongoing genocidal processes, especially in settler colonies such as the United States, Canada, and Australia, in the renewed Russian empire under the USSR after 1917, and in the expanding Japanese empire between the wars.

The essays in this volume examine the dynamics of genocide during this period, when states could draw on new technologies, new identities, and new global ideologies of control to amplify the speed, size, and impact of their destructive impulses towards unwanted populations. The chapters demonstrate the lasting consequences of genocidal processes on the world today, not simply for survivor communities and survivor diasporas, but also on the forms of organizing the world, the concepts of power, and the particular existential crises that we as a species have yet to address and transform.

Elisa von Joedon-Forgey is Endowed Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, USA.

List of Illustrations
General Editor’s Preface, Paul R. Bartrop
Introduction, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
1. Causes, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
2. Motivations and Justifications, Ugur Ümit Üngör
3. Perpetrators, Paul R. Bartrop
4. Victims, Krista Hegburg
5. Responses, Hannibal Travis
6. Consequences, Henry C. Theriault
7. Representations, Jessica A. Evers
8. Memory, Khatchig Mouradian
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	49 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-46979-3 / 1350469793
ISBN-13	978-1-350-46979-2 / 9781350469792
Zustand	Neuware