Master thesis History: Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Amsterdam. 1 online resource (.. pagina's.)

"European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts. In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt's "boomerang thesis" - the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European soil - as well as Raphael Lemkin's work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. ...

"The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this with the experiences of people who have been colonised or enslaved. Using numerous victim accounts and a wide range of primary sources, this book moves away from the 'continuity thesis', which regularly ...

"Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century brings together a collection of some of the finest genocide studies scholars in North America and Europe to examine gendered discourses, practices and experiences of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th century. It includes chapters focusing on the genocide in Rwanda and Armenia, the Holocaust, and ethnic cleansing and genocide in the former Yugoslavia. ...

Met literatuuropgave. 98 pagina's : illustraties ; 21 cm.

Why did democracy survive in some European countries between the wars, while fascism or authoritarianism emerged elsewhere? This study approaches the question through the comparative analysis of the inter-war experience of 18 countries. "In association with International Political Science Association." xv, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

"The Routledge International Handbook of Perpetrator Studies provides the first comprehensive overview of this emerging interdisciplinary field in the humanities and social sciences. Featuring contributions by scholars from a wide variety of fields and disciplines, the Handbook charts the growth and development, foundations, key debates, core concerns, and frontiers of Perpetrator Studies. Focusing ...

Met bibliogr. 20 blz. : ill., tab., krt. ; 30 cm

"From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reach to include five genocide centers across the globe and well over one hundred Holocaust centers. This work enables a new generation of scholars, researchers, and policymakers to assess the major foci of the field, develop ways and means to intervene and ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index. vi, 231 pages : map ; 24 cm

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Based on three absorbing case studies, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, this volume marks the first international, comparative, and multidisciplinary attempt to situate rescue as a research object. The result is an exceptionally rich and disturbing volume that reveals an essential historical truth: while it might be impossible to isolate the factors that ...

"Traumatic Defeat is a comparative study of wartime and postwar Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) activism and politics in Germany after World War II and the US after the Vietnam War. Patrick Gallagher argues that under certain circumstances, a postwar form of national mythology develops, derived from POW/MIA activism and the belief that substantial numbers of MIAs continue to survive ...

Ernst Schlochauer (1921-1961) was born in Berlin on 3 April 1921, and raised there until 1933, when his parents moved the family to France. Ernst studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris, but the family chose to return to Berlin in 1935, and Ernst completed his studies there in 1937, and left for Britain the same year, where he took the university entrance examination at Cambridge. As he and ...

Focusing on the relationship between the micro level of perpetrator motivation and the macro level normative discourse, this book offers an in-depth explanation for the perpetration of genocide. It is the first comparative criminological treatment of genocide drawn from original field research, based substantially on the author's interviews with perpetrators and victims of genocide and mass atrocities, ...

Pt. 1. Authoritarianisms and oppositions. Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frédéric Vairel. - Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret. - Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization / demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc. - pt. 2. Mobilizing for rights. ...

An English edition will be published by Henry Holt & Company, New York. 222 pages ; 21 cm

Introduction: Varieties of political economy : theory and case studies / Herbert Hirsch ; A brief introduction to theories of international political economy / William W. Newmann ; Borderlands, climate change, and the genocidal impulse / Alex Alvarez ; The plunder of wealth through abandoned properties laws in the Armenian genocide / Ümit Kurt ; Reflections on the Indonesian massacres in Cold War ...

Black Shame offers a detailed analysis of the recruitment and deployment of and reactions to African soldiers in the WWI European theatre of war. In so doing, the book paints a vivid picture of the wider debates of race and national identity provoked by the use of African troops within the main actors on the WWI scene: France, Britain, Germany and even the US. Drawing on war-time attitudes, Dick van ...

"Focuses on German-Ally relations, the role of the lesser powers and the relationships between dictators. Each chapter looks in turn at the Soviet Union, Japan, Vichy France, Italy, Spain, Romania, and Hungary, and analyzes their relationships with Nazi Germany. Using a comparative approach, seven case studies examine themes such as cooperation and resistance, military and economic aid, treatment of ...

Nineteen papers--including artistic and Jewish perspectives-- probe issues of Japanese responsibility and redress for such World War II atrocities as the Bataan death march, the Rape of Nanjing, and sexual slavery. The translated Tokyo Appeal from a 1999 war crimes forum is appended. Parts of the book derive from this forum and a journal that Li (Asian studies, comparative literature, Rutgers U.) edits. ...

Traces, Dis/Continuities, Complicities: An Introduction to Holocaust Literature. - Current research: 1. A Genre of Rupture: The Literary Language of the Holocaust / Victoria Aarons. - 2. Questions of Truth in Holocaust Memory and Testimony / Sue Vice. - 3. After Epic: Adorno's Scream and the Shadows of Lyric / David Miller. - 4. Relationships to Realism in Post-Holocaust Fiction: Conflicted Realism ...

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