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  • The Problems of Genocide

    Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression

    by A. Dirk Moses ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    Genocide is not only a problem of mass death, but also of how, as a relatively new idea and law, it organizes and distorts thinking about civilian destruction. Taking the normative perspective of civilian immunity from military attack, A. Dirk Moses argues that the implicit hierarchy of international criminal law, atop which sits genocide as the 'crime of crimes', blinds us to other types of ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Hidden Genocides

    Power, Knowledge, Memory

    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics

    Series series Human Rights in History
    This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

    Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide

    Edited by Diana Dumitru, A. Dirk Moses ...
    This book examines crucial facets of the Russian invasion: among them, the Russian sexual violence against occupied Ukrainians, their “collaboration” and “filtration,” legal prosecutions especially relating to kidnapped Ukrainian children, the portrayal of events in Bucha on Russian social media, and the lessons learned from the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland during the initial weeks of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory

    This book charts and traces state-mandated or state-encouraged “patriotic” histories that have recently emerged in many places around the globe.Such “patriotic” histories can revolve around both affirmative interpretations of the past and celebration of national achievements. They can also entail explicitly denialist stances against acknowledging responsibility for past atrocities, even to the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Genocide

    Key Themes

    Edited by Donald Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses ...
    The growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all its multi-disciplinary diversity by adopting a thematic rather than case-study approach. Each chapter is by an expert in the field and comprises an up-to-date survey of emerging and established areas of enquiry while highlighting problems and making suggestions ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Modernist Imagination

    Intellectual History and Critical Theory

    Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Holocaust in Greece

    For the sizeable Jewish community living in Greece during the 1940s, German occupation of Greece posed a distinct threat. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered around ninety percent of the Jewish population through the course of the war. This new account presents cutting edge research on four elements of the Holocaust in Greece: the level of antisemitism and question of collaboration; the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide

    The Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970

    Edited by A. Dirk Moses, Lasse Heerten ...
    Series series The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
    This volume is the first, comprehensive and balanced historical account of the momentous Nigeria-Biafra war. It offers a multi-perspectival treatment of the conflict that explores issues such as local experiences of victims, the massive relief campaigns by humanitarian NGOs and international organizations like the Red Cross, the actions of foreign powers with interests in the conflict, and the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Colonial Counterinsurgency and Mass Violence

    The Dutch Empire in Indonesia

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Whether out of historical interest, romantic identification with the colonized or as models for contemporary counter-insurgency experts, the mass violence of insurgency and counter-insurgency in the post-war decolonization of the European empires has long exerted an intense fascination. In the main, the dramas in French Algeria and British Kenya in the 1950s have dominated the scene, overshadowing ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies

    Edited by Donald Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of 'genocide studies' has developed to offer analysis and comprehension. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies is the first book ... Read more

    $51.29 USD