The Cambridge World History of Genocide

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Volume II documents and analyses genocide and extermination throughout the early modern and modern eras. It tracks their global expansion as European and Asian imperialisms, and Euroamerican settler colonialism, spread across the globe before the Great War, forging new frontiers and impacting Indigenous communities in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, and Australia. Twenty-five historians with expertise on specific regions explore examples on five continents, providing comparisons of nine cases of conventional imperialism with nineteen of settler colonialism, and offering a substantial basis for assessing the various factors leading to genocide. This volume also considers cases where genocide did not occur, permitting a global consideration of the role of imperialism and settler-Indigenous relations from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. It ends with six pre-1918 cases from Australia, China, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe that can be seen as 'premonitions' of the major twentieth-century genocides in Europe and Asia.

Ned Blackhawk is the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. His book Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West (2006) won half a dozen awards, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Ben Kiernan is the Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and founding Director of Yale's Genocide Studies Program. His book Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007) won numerous awards, including a gold medal for the best work of history, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association. Benjamin Madley is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. His focus is on Native Americans, as well as colonialism in Africa, Australia, and Europe, often applying a transnational and comparative approach. His book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (2016) won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Rebe Taylor is Associate Professor of History at the College of Arts, Law and Education (CALE) at the University of Tasmania. Specializing in the histories of southeast Australian indigenous peoples, her most recent book Into the Heart of Tasmania (2007) won the 2018 Tasmanian Book Prize. Ben Kiernan is the Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and founding Director of Yale's Genocide Studies Program. His book Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007) won numerous awards, including a gold medal for the best work of history, awarded by the Independent Publishers Association.