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Comparative Genocide eBook Series

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  • Representing Genocide

    The Holocaust as Paradigm?

    by Dr Rebecca Jinks ...
    Series series Comparative Genocide
    This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West. Rebecca Jinks focuses in particular on the canonical 20th century cases of genocide: Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Using literature, film, photography, and memorialisation, she demonstrates that we can only understand the ... Read more

    PHP7,341.49

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  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series In-Formation
    Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. ... Read more

    PHP1,758.39

  • Communism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Leslie Holmes ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century. At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power. What is communism? Where did the idea come from and what attracted people to it? What is the future for communism? This Very Short Introduction considers these questions and more in the search to explore and understand ... Read more

    PHP462.95

  • Archive Stories

    Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

    by Durba Ghosh, Jeff Sahadeo, Craig Robertson, Tony Ballantyne ...
    Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates ... Read more

    PHP1,666.69

  • Conversations with Gorbachev

    On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism

    by Mikhail Gorbachev, Zdenek Mlynar ...
    Translated by George Shriver ...
    Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague spring; the other opened a new political era in Soviet world politics.In 1993 they decided that ... Read more

    PHP1,120.29

  • Hidden Genocides

    Power, Knowledge, Memory

    by Alexander Laban Hinton, A. Dirk Moses, Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Mato Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Adam Jones0, Hannibal Travis1, Krista Hegburg2 ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous ... Read more

    PHP1,257.89

  • Utopia/Dystopia

    Conditions of Historical Possibility

    Edited by Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Professor Michael D. Gordin ...
    The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically ... Read more

    PHP2,002.49

  • May Man Prevail?

    An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy

    by Erich Fromm ...
    New York Times –Bestselling Author: A study of the turmoil and uncertainty in the early 1960s when the threat of nuclear holocaust loomed around the world.The early 1960s were a time of existential unease across the world. The constant threat of a nuclear bomb—and of mutually assured destruction—led to a palpable sense that nuclear holocaust could occur any day. It was in this Cold War environment ... Read more

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  • Genocidal Crimes

    by Alex Alvarez ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Criminology
    Genocide has emerged as one of the leading problems of the twentieth century. No corner of the world seems immune from this form of collective violence. While many individuals are familiar with the term, few people have a clear understanding of what genocide is and how it is carried out. This book clearly discusses the concept of genocide and dispels the widely held misconceptions about how these ... Read more

    PHP3,997.36

  • Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon

    Edited by Helena Goscilo ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Though in recent months Putin’s popularity has frayed at the edges, the dearth of comparably powerful and experienced political leaders leaves no doubt that he will continue to be a key political figure. During his tenure as Russia’s President and subsequently as Prime Minister, Putin transcended politics, to become the country’s major cultural icon. This book examines the nature of his iconic ... Read more

    PHP4,287.06

  • Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History

    Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide

    Edited by Richard H. King, Dan Stone ...
    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of ‘superior races’ to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial ... Read more

    PHP1,098.19

  • Extreme Politics

    Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

    by Charles King ...
    Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades. ... Read more

    PHP1,668.19