Mass Violence in Modern History
About the Book Series
Despite the horrors of nineteenth century conflicts including the US Civil War and the Napoleonic Wars, it was not until the twentieth century that mass killing was conducted on an industrialized scale. While the trenches of Flanders and the atomic bomb were major manifestations of this, mass violence often occurred outside the context of conventional war or away from the traditional battlefield. Research has understandably tended to focus on major events and often within a binary superpower narrative. In fact, instances of mass violence are often hard to pin down as well as being little known, and involving civilians and citizens of a wider range of territories than is publicized. The books in this series shed light on mass violence in the modern era, from Armenia to Rwanda; from Belarus to Bosnia-Herzegovina and many points in between.
Gender and Genocide in Cambodia: Surviving Khmer Rouge
1st Edition
By Azra Rashid
June 27, 2025
This book explores the multiplicity of women’s experiences in the Cambodian genocide during the four-year rule of the Khmer Rouge. The dominant discourses of genocide often speak from a patriarchal and national perspective, rendering women speechless, and yet in this volume, the female survivors of...
Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915
1st Edition
Edited
By Hülya Adak, Fatma Müge Göçek, Ronald Grigor Suny
May 06, 2025
The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust; yet, other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide. ...
Redefining Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorena De Vita, Constantin Goschler
March 19, 2025
This edited volume offers a new interpretation of the historically momentous 1952 Wassenaar negotiations between representatives of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, and the Jewish Claims Conference to negotiate reparations, compensation, and restitution in the aftermath of the Holocaust. ...
The Genocide of the Christian Populations in the Ottoman Empire and its Aftermath (1908-1923)
1st Edition
Edited
By Taner Akçam, Theodosios Kyriakidis, Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis
August 26, 2024
During the twilight years of the Ottoman Empire, the ethnic tensions between the minority populations within the empire led to the administration carrying out a systematic destruction of the Armenian people. This not only brought 2,000 years of Armenian civilisation within Anatolia to an end but ...
Conceptualizing Mass Violence: Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations
1st Edition
Edited
By Navras J. Aafreedi, Priya Singh
January 09, 2023
Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia...
Remembering Genocides in Central Africa
1st Edition
By Rene Lemarchand
August 01, 2022
Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research in Central Africa, the ...
Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities: New Theoretical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Greenland, Fatma Müge Göçek
April 29, 2022
This volume brings together leading sociologists and anthropologists to break new ground in the study of cultural violence. First sketched in Raphael Lemkin’s seminal writings on genocide, and later systematically defined by peace studies scholar Johan Galtung, the concept of cultural violence ...
Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Eve Monique Zucker, Ben Kiernan
April 19, 2021
This book examines postwar waves of political violence that affected six Southeast Asian countries – Indonesia, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam – from the wars of independence in the mid-twentieth century to the recent Rohingya genocide. Featuring cases not ...
The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands: The Arc of Civilian Complicity
1st Edition
By Mihai Poliec
March 31, 2021
This volume examines the changing role which ordinary members of society played in the state-sponsored persecution of the Jews in Bukovina and Bessarabia, both during the summer of 1941, when Romania joined the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and beyond. It establishes different patterns of ...
The White Terror: Antisemitic and Political Violence in Hungary, 1919-1921
1st Edition
By Béla Bodó
March 31, 2021
The White Terror was a movement of right-wing militias that for two years actively tracked down, tortured, and murdered members of the Jewish community, as well as former supporters of the short-lived Council Republic in the years following World War I. It can be argued that this example of a ...
Local Dimensions of the Second World War in Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Xavier Bougarel, Hannes Grandits, Marija Vulesica
December 18, 2020
This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is on the reshaping of ethnic and religious groups in wartime, on the "top-down" and "bottom-up" dynamics of mass violence, and on the local dimensions of...
Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide
1st Edition
By Vahagn Avedian
June 30, 2020
Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter? If that is the case, why is it still a topical issue, capable of causing diplomatic rows and heated debates? The short answer would be that the century old Armenian Genocide is much more than a historical question. It emerged as a political ...