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Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Resistance in World History
This deeply researched volume traces the concept of genocide through five centuries of imperial expansion and colonial domination. The term "genocide" was coined in 1944 by Raphael Lemkin, the Polish jurist who drafted the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. In this tradition, the book situates genocide within the major geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formation of nation-states.
Challenging conventional understandings of twentieth-century mass atrocities, the work demonstrates that genocide and ethnic cleansing were integral to imperial expansion. It offers a provocative reconsideration of how we understand mass violence, proposing that genocide studies should be positioned as a field largely independent from Holocaust studies—while placing the Holocaust itself within a broader context of modern violence that emerged alongside industrial production.
The book addresses fundamental methodological and conceptual questions, making it essential reading for specialists in various historical periods as well as general readers interested in conquest, warfare, population displacement, and colonization.
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