Publisher's Synopsis
The fifth edition of Centuries of Genocide: Essays and Eyewitness Accounts continues to addresses examples of genocides perpetrated in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter of the book is written by a recognized expert in the field, collectively demonstrating a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. The book is framed by an introductory essay that spells out definitional issues, as well as the promises, complexities, and barriers to the prevention and intervention of genocide.
While the material in each chapter is based on sterling scholarship and wide-ranging expertise of the authors, eyewitness accounts give voice to the victims. This book is an attempt to provoke the reader into understanding that learning about genocide is important and that we all have a responsibility not to become immune to acts of genocide, especially in the interdependent world in which we live today.
New to the Fifth Edition:
- An important new chapter on the recently declared ISIS genocide of the Yazidis in Iraq.
- Three additional new chapters on Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Nuba Mountains/Darfur.
- A new introduction updating definitions of genocide and emerging incidences.
- Valued chapters from previous editions appear as e-Resources on the book's Webpage.
