The fourth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centur ies. Each chapter of the book is wr itten by a recognized expert in the field.
The chapter on the Armenian Genocide, which has appeared
since the
first edition of the publication, previously issued under
the title Century of
Genocide, is authored by ANI Director Dr. Rouben Adalian.
For this new and
expanded edition, the chapter was updated to reflect the
growing scholarship
on the subject.
The book is framed by an introductory essay that spells
out definitional issues. To help
readers learn about the similarities and differences
among the various cases, each case is structured around specific leading
questions. In every chapter authors address: Who
committed the genocide? How was the genocide committed?
Why was the genocide committed? Who were the victims? What were the outstanding
historical forces? What was the long-range impact? What were the responses? How
do scholars interpret
this genocide? How does learning about this genocide
contr ibute to the field of study?
Dr. Maureen Hiebert from the University of Calgary, who
specializes in genocide, government, politics, and international law, descr
ibed the publication as: "A welcome new edition to an already influential
series, Centur ies of Genocide adds new cases spanning the nineteenth to the
twenty-first century and the four corners of the globe. Each chapter offers
up-to-date research and analysis by some of the
leading scholars in the field on the causes, processes,
and aftermath of genocide, along with searing firstperson eyewitness accounts
that starkly illustrate the human experience, and tragic cost, of genocidal violence."
Dr. Ervin Staub of the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst and author of Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism
and The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence,
comments: "In this deeply humane book, fired by the passion of the editors
and authors to
understand the roots of genocides so that we can prevent
this scourge of humanity, eminent experts give 24 up-to-date accounts of 15
genocides. The scholarship of the authors is outstanding, the chapters in the
book highly readable and compelling. While most of the chapters are about
genocides in the 20th century, the book now contains chapters about genocides
in the 19th century and the first genocide in the 21st Century.
The personal accounts included truly reach the
heart."
Co-editor of Centuries of Genocide William S. Parsons,
who is Chief of Staff for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, DC, has devoted 30 years of his career to Holocaust education. In
1991, Parsons was invited to join the Museum's Education Committee to share his
innovative ideas for teaching about prejudice and racism. He is also the
co-author of the teachers' guide Facing
History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior.
Dr. Samuel Totten, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
Professor of Curr iculum and Instruction, has wr itten extensively on teaching,
preventing, intervening and documenting genocide. He is the author of Teaching
About Genocide, Dictionary of Genocide, co-editor with Steven Jacobs of
Pioneers of Genocide Studies, which included a contribution by Adalian, and was
an associate editor with Adalian, Jacobs, and Eric
Markusen of the Encyclopedia of Genocide under the chief
editorship of Israel W Charny, Executive Director of the Institute on the
Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. Totten is also the co-founding editor of
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal published by the
University of Toronto Press and the Zoryan Institute. During the summer of
2004, Totten served as one of the 24 investigators with the U.S. State
Department's Atrocities Documentation Project, interviewing
black African refugees along the Chad/Sudan border in
order to collect data for the express purpose of ascertaining whether genocide
had been perpetrated in Darfur.
Centur ies of Genocide includes the following chapters:
Introduction by Samuel Totten and William S.Parsons; The Genocide of
California's Yana Indians by Ben Madley; Genocide in Australia by Colin Tatz; The
Genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South-West Africa, 1904-1907 by
Dominik Schaller; The Armenian Genocide by Rouben Adalian; Soviet Man-made
Famine in Ukraine by James E. Mace; The
Holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, and the Handicapped by Donald
L. Niewyk; Genocide in Bangladesh by Rounaq Jahan; Genocide in East Timor by
James Dunn; The Cambodian Genocide, 1975-1979 by Ben Kiernan; Guatemala: Acts
of Genocide and Scorched-Earth Counterinsurgency War by Susanne Jonas; The
Anfal Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan by Michiel Leezenberg; The Nuba Mountains,
Sudan by Alex De Waal; The 1994 Genocide of the Tutsi of Rwanda by Gerry
Caplan; Genocidal Violence in the Former Yugoslavia: Bosnia Herzegovina by
Martin Mennecke; and Genocide in Darfur, Sudan by Samuel Totten.
As par t of its continuing service to educators and to
coincide with the release of Centuries of Genocide, ANI has expanded its
Resource Guide and other sections of the Education component of the ANI
website.
Dozens of resources selected for their instructional
value are listed for the benefit of students and teachers. Educators interested
in teaching about the role of American humanitarianism and involvement in responding
to the Armenian cr isis can also benefit from the recently issued fact sheet
summarizing The United States Record on the Armenian Genocide: A Proud Chapter
in Amer ican History, prepared by the
Armenian Assembly of America.
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