Devastation - Volume I: The European Rimlands 1912-1938

Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1912 to 1938, particularly focussing on the Balkans, the Great War, and the emergence of the Stalin and Hitler States, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history.

List of contents

Preface: Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State: Continuing the Quest; Introduction: The Structural Underpinnings of European Genocide, 1912-1953; Part One: Great War and Revolution; 1 The Great War: Site of Genocide or Signpost to its Future Enactment?; 2 Armenian Genocide: Ottoman Catastrophes; 3 The First Crisis of the Rimlands; Part Two: Interregnum between Great Wars; 4 The Lost Peace; 5 Anti-System One: The Emerging Stalin State; 6 Anti-System Two: The Emerging Hitler State; Select Bibliography; Index

About the author

Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton, and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish / non-Jewish Relations. His writing ranges from Jewish history to genocide and anthropogenic climate change, including, most recently History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure (co-edited with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts, 2010). He is founder of Rescue! History, and co-founder of the Crisis Forum. The two volumes of Crisis of Genocide continue a multi-volume project - begun with The Meaning of Genocide and The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (2005) - to chart the history of genocide in the age of the nation-state.

Summary

Explores the genocidal events of the period from 1912 to 1938, particularly focussing on the Balkans, the Great War, and the emergence of the Stalin and Hitler States, and seeks to integrate them into a single, coherent history.

Additional text

This extremely ambitious work provides a very knowledgeable and enormously broad survey of violence in large parts of Europe and southwest Asia from the 1910s to the early 1950s.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Levene, Mark (Reader in History Levene, Levene Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2013
• EAN: 9780199683031
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968303-1
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Crisis Of Genocide; Crisis Of Genocide
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)