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.

The Cambridge world history of genocide. Volume II, Genocide in the indigenous, early modern and imperial worlds, from c.1535 to World War One

The Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 2, Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern and Imperial Worlds, from c.1535 to World War One

Cambridge World History of Genocide: Volume 2, Genocide in the Indigenous, Early Modern, and Imperial Worlds, from C. 1535 to World War One

Ben Kiernan; T. M Lemos; Tristan S Taylor; Ned Blackhawk; Benjamin Madley; Rebe Taylor; Wendy Lower; Norman M Naimark; Scott Straus

Ned Blackhawk, Ben Kiernan, Benjamin Madley, Rebe Taylor, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus

Cambridge Library Collection

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2023

New, PS, 2023

S.l, 2022

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Volume II covers the early modern and modern cases of genocide and their effects on Indigenous communities across the Americas, Africa and Australia, as well as premonitions of twentieth-century disasters. An essential reference text for those interested in the early modern period, as well humanitarianism and Indigenous Studies.

This three-volume set uncovers the long-term and immediate causes of genocide from prehistory to the twenty-first century, highlighting how humans have demonstrated genocidal intent over time, and how it can be prevented. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, human rights associations and students.