Format:
1 Online-Ressource (472 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755623815
Content:
Introduction to Volume II -- Part One: To the Frontiers -- 1 European Conquerors and Sundry 'Savages' -- 2 Anglo Consolidation in the Americas and Antipodes -- Part Two: Enter the Nation-State -- 3 The Vendée - A Paradigm Shift? -- 4 The French Model, its Discontents and Contenders -- Part Three: Empires in Advance: Empires in Retreat -- 5 Ascendant Imperialisms -- 6 Declining Powers -- Notes -- Select -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Most books on genocide consider it primarily as a twentieth-century phenomenon. In "The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide", Levene argues that this approach fails to grasp its true origins. Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. It was European expansion into all hemispheres between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided the main stimulus to its pre-1914 manifestations. One critical outcome, on the cusp of modernity, was the French revolutionary destruction of the Vendee. Levene finishes this volume at the 1914 watershed with the destabilising effects of the 'rise of the West' on older Ottoman, Chinese, Russian and Austrian empires."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780763736
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845110574
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755623815
