Genocide Before the Holocaust, Cathie Carmichael (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 256 pp., cloth 45.00

Has Europe been the site of numerous genocides over hundreds of years? If modernization led to the Holocaust, did it also contribute to half a dozen other genocides on the continent? What is the real history of Europe behind the “progress” narrative of Western civilization? Such questions are raised...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staines, Deborah (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: Oxford University Press 2011
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 170-172
Review of:Genocide before the Holocaust (New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2009) (Staines, Deborah)
Further subjects:B Book review
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Description
Summary:Has Europe been the site of numerous genocides over hundreds of years? If modernization led to the Holocaust, did it also contribute to half a dozen other genocides on the continent? What is the real history of Europe behind the “progress” narrative of Western civilization? Such questions are raised, if not always answered, in Genocide Before the Holocaust, which ranges from the Balkans through Anatolia to the Caucasus in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Over the past decade Mark Levene, Donald Bloxham, and other scholars have problematized the received assumption that Europe's genocides are limited to the Holocaust and Bosnia.
ISSN:1476-7937
Contains:Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr011