STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE GENOCIDE

Chorbajian, Levon [editor]; Shirinian, George [editor]

ISBN 10: 0333693027 / ISBN 13: 9780333693025

Published by MacMillan Press LTD, London, 1999

About this Item

Octavo, 270 pages. In Good Plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Green spine with white text. Dust jacket shows mild wear throughout front cover, head edge of spine, mild wear on fore and rear corners resulting in small tears. Text block shows pen-writing on tail edge and pencil and highlighting on pp. xv to xxii, p. xxxi, faint pen marking on p.3. Shelved in Hallway. 1388389. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1388389

Bibliographic Details

• Title: STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE GENOCIDE
• Publisher: MacMillan Press LTD, London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333693027
• ISBN 13: 9780333693025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Warfare and Conflict
  • World History

About this title

Synopsis

Many of the world's leading authorities from history, sociology, political science and psychology shed new light on the major genocides of the twentieth century in this excellent collection. Irving L. Horowitz and Roger W. Smith provide broad interpretative introductions to the subject. Turkish historian Taner Akcam analyses why Turkey denies the Armenian Genocide to this day, while Vahakn Dadrian examines the lttihad Party's unique role in the conduct of the Armenian Genocide. James Reid analyses Ottoman satanic belief systems as an ideological foundation for the Armenian Genocide, and Helen Fein compares the Armenian, Bosnian and Rwandan genocides. Ben Kiernan examines the lives of two major perpetrators of genocide, Pol Pot and Enver Pasha, and Frank Sysyn examines the lengthy struggle for recognition of the Ukrainian famine as a genocide. The last section features Henry Huttenbach on denial and Ervin Staub on prevention. Thirteen of the fourteen essays are previously unpublished. Levon Chorbajian provides a lengthy, original introduction.

About the Author

LEVON CHORBAJIAN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His interests are political sociology, genocide studies, and racial and ethnic minority relations. He is the co-author of The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geopolitics of Nagorno-Karabagh and the translator of Pierre Verluise's Armenia in Crisis: The 1988 Earthquake. In 1986 and 1996 he was a Fulbright scholar in Armenia. GEORGE SHIRINIAN was born and raised in Toronto where he lives with his wife and son. He is a specialist in computer applications in libraries and is currently Acting Chief Executive Officer for the Toronto Public Library, York Office. He is also a student of genocide and serves on the Corporate Board of Directors of the Zoryan institute.