Cultural Genocide

by Lawrence Davidson

Overview

Cultural Genocide establishes a theoretical basis for understanding why groups can be readily brought to seek the elimination of out-groups using the tactic of cultural destruction. Lawrence Davidson applies his theory to four uses of cultural genocide, with two pre-Holocaust case studies and two post-Holocaust case studies. He examines the mechanisms that may be used to combat today’s cultural genocide as well as the contemporary social and political forces at work that must be overcome in the process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813553443
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	03/08/2012
Series:	Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	162
File size:	220 KB
Age Range:	17 - 18 Years

About the Author

LAWRENCE DAVIDSON is a professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest and coauthor of A Concise History of the Middle East.

Table of Contents

1. Theoretical Foundations
2. Cultural Genocide and the American Indians
3. Russia and the Jews in the Nineteenth Century
4. Israel and Palestinian Cultural Genocide
5. The Chinese Assimilation of Tibet
6. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Davidson does not shy away from controversy as he seeks to challenge the thought collectives that justify everything from bulldozing villages and cultural sites to banning languages and religious practices. Recommended."

Choice

"Davidson provides us with a unique and creative way of looking at the phenomenon of collective violence and constructs a provocative, carefully argued, and at times unsettling, critique of the simplistic models."

University of California, San Diego - Gary Fields

"Davidson does not shy away from controversy as he seeks to challenge the thought collectives that justify everything from bulldozing villages and cultural sites to banning languages and religious practices. Recommended."
-- "Choice" (8/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)

"Davidson provides us with a unique and creative way of looking at the phenomenon of collective violence and constructs a provocative, carefully argued, and at times unsettling, critique of the simplistic models."--Gary Fields "University of California, San Diego" (7/18/2011 12:00:00 AM)

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