A Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

Samuel. Totten, William Spencer Parsons, Israel W.. Charny

Routledge, 2004 - Social Science - 507 pages

Through powerful first-person accounts, scholarly analyses and historical data, Century of Genocide takes on the task of explaining how and why genocides have been perpetrated throughout the course of the twentieth century. The book assembles a group of international scholars to discuss the causes, results, and ramifications of these genocides: from the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire; to the Jews, Romani, and the mentally and physically handicapped during the Holocaust; and genocides in East Timor, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

The second edition has been fully updated and features new chapters on the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and the mass killing of the Kurds in Iraq, as well as a chapter on the question of whether or not the situation in Kosovo constituted genocide. It concludes with an essay concerning methods of intervention and prevention of future genocide.

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Review: Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

User Review  - Jake - Goodreads

This is primarily a collection of eyewitness accounts compiled by various authors. Not originally what I expected, seeing as how this was recommended to me since I had Samantha Power's "The Problem ...

Review: Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts

User Review  - Nick Coddington - Goodreads

If you read one book on genocide, this should be it. It will inform and educate anyone who reads it. The author does an excellent job at detailing the major and minor genocides of the 20th century in ...

About the author

Samuel Totten is a scholar of genocide studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2008 at the National University of Rwanda (NUR) during which he created the Master's Degree in Genocide Studies. His most recent publication is The Darfur Genocide: An Oral and Documentary History.

Israel W. Charny is Executive Director, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem; and Associate Professor of Psychology, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Marital Love and Hate, Existential/Dialectical Marital Therapy: Breaking the Secret Code of Marriage; and the coauthor (with Chanan Rapaport) of How Can We Commit the Unthinkable?: Genocide, the Human Cancer. He is also the editor (with Shamai Davidson) of "The Book of the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide: Book One: The Conference Program and Crisis"; "Toward the Understanding and Prevention of Genocide [Selected Presentations at the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide]"; and "Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review".

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
• Editors: Samuel. Totten, William Spencer Parsons, Israel W.. Charny
• Contributor: Samuel. Totten
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Routledge, 2004
• ISBN: 0415944309, 9780415944304
• Length: 507 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family