Gebundenes Buch

Studies in Comparative Genocide

Beschreibung

Many of the world's leading authorities in history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the twentieth century. Featured authors include Irving Louis Horowitz, Helen Fein, Vahakn Dadrian, Roger W. Smith, Henry Huttenbach, Ervin Staub, and Turkish historian Taner Ak . The volume covers the genocides of the Armenians, Ukrainians, Jews, Gypsies, Rwandans and Bosnians, and also topics of genocide denial and prevention.

Autor

ROUBEN P. ADALIAN Project Director of the Armenian National Institute in Washington, D.C. TANER AKÇAM Research Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for the Social Sciences YEHUDA BAUER Permanent Academic Chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem VAHAKN N. DADRIAN Director of a large genocide study project supported by the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation HELEN FEIN Executive Director of he Institute of Genocide and an Associate of the Froançois-Zavier Bagboud Institute for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard University School of Public Health IRVING L. HOROWITZ Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political science at Rutgers University ANOUSH HOVANISSIAN Researcher at the Institute for Near Eastern Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia HENRY R. HUTTENBACH Professor of Russian and East European History at the City College of New York BEN KIERNAN Associate Professor of History and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University FRANKLIN H. LITTELL Emeritus Professor of Religion at Temple University and Adjunct Professor at the institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem JAMES J. REID Senior Research Fellow at the Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism in Rancho Cordova, California ROGER W. SMITH Professor of government at the College of William and Mary in Virginia ERVIN STAUB Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst FRANK E. SYSYN Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-312-21933-8
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 145mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780312219338
• ISBN-10: 0312219334
• Artikelnr.: 21900429

Rezensionen

'...the book is a solid contribution to the literature of genocide. The collected articles provide an abundance of stimulating ideas that will serve as a source of inspiration...' - Dave Decker, California State University, Journal of Intercultural Studies