Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction | Politics

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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. Designed as a text for undergraduate and graduate students from a range of disciplines it will also appeal to non-specialists and general readers. Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field this unique book: Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept including the concept of genocidal intent and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes. Discusses the role of state-building imperialism war and social revolution in fueling genocide. Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocid…