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Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Encountering Genocide: Personal Accounts from Victims, Perpetrators, and Witnesses

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781610693301

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

ABC-CLIO

Publication Date:

30th June 2014

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

General and world history

Dewey:

304.66309

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

328

Dimensions:

Width 178mm, Height 254mm

Weight:

851g

Description

Cutting-edge in its scope and approach, this unique volume offers first-person accounts of modern genocides to enable readers to more fully examine genocidal experiences and better understand the horror of such events. From the atrocities of the Holocaust to the ongoing horrors in Darfur, genocide has been a gruesome and all-too-prominent fixture of modern history. There is no better way to examine and understand these events than through the accounts of those involved. This unique collection of primary sources features 50 documents, some of which have never before been made public. These firsthand accountsdiary entries, memoirs, oral testimony, original interviews, and moreilluminate 10 genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries as they were experienced by victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. The book begins with the Herero Genocide (19041907) and ends with a consideration of the atrocities in Darfur. Each of the 50 documents features a brief introduction that provides basic and essential information such as who created it as well as when, where, and why. The work concludes with an analysis comprised of scholarly commentary, additional contextual information, and a list of questions that will serve as a springboard for student discussion of history and of the nature of survival in the face of evil.

Author Bio

Paul R. Bartrop, PhD, is professor of history and director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL.

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