How has human response to genocide evolved over time? What effect has it had on our understanding of the cause and consequences of genocide? Spanning 2,800 years of human history, A Cultural History of Genocide offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of genocide from ancient times to the present day. With six highly illustrated volumes all written by leading scholars, this is the definitive reference work on the subject of genocide.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. - Ancient World (800 BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (800 - 1400); 3. - Early Modern World (1400 - 1789); 4. - Long Nineteenth Century (1789 - 1914); 5. - Era of Total War (1914 - 1945); 6. - Modern World (1945 - present).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: Responses to Genocide; Motivations and Justifications for Genocide; Genocide Perpetrators; Genocide Victims; Genocide and Memory; Consequences of Genocide; Representations of Genocide; Causes of Genocide.
The page extent for the pack is approximately 1,720 pp with c. 240 illustrations. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Genocide is part of The Cultural Histories series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
Bartrop, Paul R.: - Paul R. Bartrop is s a multi-award-winning scholar of the Holocaust and genocide, and Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He is also an Honorary Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and formerly Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. The author and co-author of several books, his published works with ABC-CLIO include The Holocaust: The Essential Reference Guide (2022), Children of the Holocaust (2019), and Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators (2019). All three of these works were co-authored with Eve E. Grimm. In addition, he has published Modern Genocide: Analyzing the Controversies and Issues (2018); The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection (edited with Michael Dickerman, 2017); and Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors (2016). He is a former Vice-President of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association and is a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies. In 2022 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom.
