New Books in Genocide Studies
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Erica Lehrer, “Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places” (Indiana UP, 2013)
68 hours 46 mins; May 01, 2018
Steven J. Zipperstein, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History” (Liveright/Norton, 2018)
50 mins; April 27, 2018
Kevin Simpson, “Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
59 mins; April 12, 2018
Thomas Weber, “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi” (Basic Books, 2017)
71 hours 50 mins; March 27, 2018
Nathan Stoltzfus, “Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany” (Yale UP, 2016)
53 mins; February 26, 2018
Jeffrey Shandler, “Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices” (Stanford UP, 2017)
55 mins; February 19, 2018
Robert Aquinas McNally, “The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age” (Bison Books, 2017)
55 mins; February 09, 2018
David Gerlach, “The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing: The Transformation of German-Czech Borderlands after World War II” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
60 hours 55 mins; February 05, 2018
Roger Frie, “Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust” (Oxford UP, 2017)
66 hours 11 mins; January 30, 2018
Omer Bartov, “Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz” (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
65 hours 48 mins; January 30, 2018
Samuel Totten, “Sudan’s Nuba Mountains People Under Siege” (McFarland, 2017)
67 hours 8 mins; January 24, 2018
Amos Goldberg, “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust” (Indiana UP, 2017)
75 hours 11 mins; January 10, 2018
Wolfgang Seibel, “Persecution and Rescue: The Politics of the Final Solution in France, 1940-1944” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
62 hours 5 mins; January 09, 2018
Herman Salton, “Dangerous Diplomacy: Bureaucracy, Power Politics and the Role of the UN Secretariat in Rwanda” (Oxford UP, 2017)
85 hours 43 mins; January 08, 2018
Guenter Lewy, “Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers” (Oxford UP, 2017)
40 mins; November 29, 2017
Sara E. Brown, “Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda: Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators” (Routledge, 2017)
66 hours 2 mins; November 28, 2017
Lawrence R. Douglas, “The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial” (Princeton UP, 2016)
47 mins; November 27, 2017
Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, “Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging, and Propaganda” (Routledge, 2017)
40 mins; November 06, 2017
Benjamin Madley, “An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873” (Yale UP, 2016)
49 mins; November 01, 2017
Christian Ingrao, “Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine” (Polity Press, 2015)
57 mins; October 26, 2017
Walter Scheidel, “The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality” (Princeton UP, 2017)
26 mins; October 19, 2017
Alexander Prusin, “Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
54 mins; October 11, 2017
Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Habbo Knoch, eds., “Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
39 mins; September 20, 2017
Max Bergholz, “Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism and Memory in a Balkan Community” (Cornell UP, 2016)
75 hours 11 mins; August 25, 2017
Michael Barnett, “Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda” (Cornell UP, 2016)
63 hours 22 mins; August 06, 2017
Leonard Grob and John Roth, “Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture,” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
77 hours 22 mins; June 20, 2017
Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
74 hours 1 min; May 18, 2017
Bert Ingelaere, “Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice After Genocide” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2016)
79 hours 7 mins; April 13, 2017
James Q. Whitman, “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law” (Princeton UP, 2017)
49 mins; April 12, 2017
Anuradha Chakravarty, “Investing in Authoritarian Rule: Punishment and Patronage in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts for Genocide Crimes,” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
65 hours 27 mins; March 28, 2017
Richard Weikart, “Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich” (Regnery History, 2016)
62 hours 37 mins; March 14, 2017
Deborah Lipstadt, “Holocaust: An American Understanding” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
38 mins; March 06, 2017
Edward Westermann, “Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2016)
59 mins; March 02, 2017
Mark Glickman, “Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books” (The Jewish Publication Society, 2016)
36 mins; February 17, 2017
Ferenc Laczo, “Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual History, 1929-1948” (Brill, 2016)
65 hours 15 mins; February 15, 2017
Telesphore Ngarambe, “Practical Challenges in Customary Law Translation: The Case of Rwanda’s Gacaca Law” (OSSREA, 2015)
66 hours 11 mins; February 06, 2017
Noah Lederman, “A World Erased: A Grandson’s Search for His Family’s Holocaust Secrets” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
33 mins; February 01, 2017
Elizabeth Oglesby and Diane Nelson, “Guatemala: The Question of Genocide,” The Journal of Genocide Research” (Taylor and Frances, 2016)
58 mins; December 23, 2016
Richard Griffiths, “What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-1945” (Routledge, 2016)
51 mins; December 18, 2016
Benjamin Martin, “The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
60 hours 1 min; November 29, 2016
Carrie Booth Walling, “All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
73 hours 33 mins; November 19, 2016
Colin Holmes, “Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce” (Routledge, 2016)
51 mins; November 18, 2016
Fred Amram, “We’re in America Now: A Survivor’s Stories” (Holy Cow! Press, 2016)
33 mins; October 14, 2016
Noah Shenker, “Reframing Holocaust Testimony” (Indiana UP, 2016)
77 hours 57 mins; October 07, 2016
Jan Schwarz, “Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust” (Wayne State UP, 2015)
40 mins; September 26, 2016
James Waller, “Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide” (Oxford UP, 2016)
66 hours 54 mins; September 21, 2016
Bridget Conley-Zilkic, ed. “How Mass Atrocities End: Studies from Guatemala, Burundi, Indonesia, the Sudans, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
65 hours 18 mins; August 26, 2016
Lauren Faulkner Rossi, “Wehrmacht Priests: Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation” (Harvard UP, 2015)
63 hours 38 mins; August 16, 2016
Scott Straus, “Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention” (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016)
73 hours 55 mins; July 28, 2016
Ugur Umit Ungor, “Genocide: New Perspectives on its Causes, Courses and Consequences” (Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
59 mins; July 01, 2016
Stefan Ihrig, “Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler” (Harvard UP, 2016)
54 mins; June 18, 2016
Andrew Woolford, “This Benevolent Experiment” (U of Nebraska Press, 2015)
53 mins; June 01, 2016
Ingrid Carlberg, “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography” (MacLehose Press, 2016)
33 mins; May 04, 2016
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, “Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
43 mins; March 31, 2016
Joshua Zimmerman, “The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
108 hours 49 mins; March 18, 2016
Hillary Chute, “Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form” (Harvard UP, 2016)
53 mins; March 14, 2016
Dan J. Puckett, “In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust” (U of Alabama Press, 2014)
34 mins; March 13, 2016
Timothy Snyder, “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning” (Tim Duggan Books, 2015)
78 hours 55 mins; January 28, 2016
Ron Grigor Suny, “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide” (Princeton UP, 2015)
66 hours 17 mins; January 18, 2016
Abram de Swaan, “The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder” (Yale UP, 2015)
63 hours 9 mins; January 11, 2016
Kim Wunschmann, “Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps” (Harvard University Press 2015)
32 mins; December 12, 2015
Nicholas Stargardt, “The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945” (Basic Books, 2015)
70 hours 24 mins; November 18, 2015
Vicken Cheterian, "Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide" (Oxford UP, 2015)
93 hours 13 mins; October 29, 2015
Conference Report: Genocide In World History, Bryant University, 9-10 October 2015
3 mins; October 20, 2015
Adam Rosenblatt, “Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity” (Stanford UP, 2015)
80 hours 27 mins; October 09, 2015
Shelly Cline, “Women at Work: The SS Aufseherin and the Gendered Perpetration of the Holocaust” (Ph. D. Diss, U of Kansas, 2014)
55 mins; September 22, 2015
Dan Stone, “The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath” (Yale UP, 2015)
61 hours 13 mins; August 25, 2015
Nikolaus Wachsmann, “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” (FSG, 2015)
58 mins; August 10, 2015
Sarah Helm, “Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women” (Nan A. Talese, 2015)
87 hours 32 mins; August 01, 2015
Geoff Megargee, ed., “The USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos,” Vols. 1 and 2 (Indiana UP, 2009 and 2012)
55 mins; July 21, 2015
Anton Weiss-Wendt, “The Nazi Genocide of the Roma” (Berghahn, 2015) and “Racial Science in Hitler’s New Europe” (U of Nebraska Press, 2013)
77 hours 13 mins; July 06, 2015
Scott Straus, “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
74 hours 47 mins; June 09, 2015
Emily Kuriloff, “Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich” (Routledge, 2013)
52 mins; June 02, 2015
Juergen Matthaus et al., “War, Pacification and Mass Murder, 1939: The Einsatzgruppen in Poland” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
52 mins; May 18, 2015
F. M. Gocek, “Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians” (Oxford UP, 2015)
68 hours 10 mins; May 11, 2015
John-Paul Himka and Joanna Beata Michlic, “Bringing the Dark Past to Light” (U of Nebraska Press, 2013)
72 hours 38 mins; April 29, 2015
Daniel Feierstein, “Genocide as Social Practice” (Rutgers UP, 2014)
66 hours 32 mins; April 10, 2015
Abdelwahab El-Affendi, “Genocidal Nightmares” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
58 mins; March 25, 2015
Ervin Staub, “Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism” (Oxford UP, 2010)
79 hours 7 mins; March 14, 2015
Alon Confino, “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” (Yale UP, 2014)
52 mins; March 01, 2015
Robert J. Donia, “Radovan Karadzic: Architect of the Bosnian Genocide” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
67 hours 29 mins; February 06, 2015
Anne Knowles, Mastering Iron (U of Chicago Press, 2013) and Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2014)
48 mins; January 30, 2015
James Mace Ward, “Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia” (Cornell UP, 2013)
74 hours 7 mins; December 25, 2014
Thomas Kuehne, “Belonging and Genocide: Hitler’s Community, 1918-1945” (Yale UP, 2013)
69 hours 23 mins; December 23, 2014
Joyce Apsel and Ernesto Verdeja, “Genocide Matters: Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives” (Routledge, 2013)
65 hours 39 mins; November 19, 2014
Thierry Cruvellier, “The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer” (Ecco, 2014)
60 hours 52 mins; October 31, 2014
Deborah Mayersen, “On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined” (Berghahn Books, 2014)
64 hours 39 mins; September 23, 2014
What Do We Now Know About the Rwandan Genocide Twenty Years On?
69 hours 36 mins; September 13, 2014
Martin Shaw, “Genocide and International Relations” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
62 hours 21 mins; August 08, 2014
Samuel Totten, “Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan” (Transaction Publishers, 2012)
84 hours 36 mins; July 18, 2014
Michael Bryant, “Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966” (University of Tennessee Press, 2014)
77 hours 23 mins; July 15, 2014
Wendy Lower, “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
59 mins; July 07, 2014
Benjamin Lieberman, “Remaking Identities: God, Nation and Race in World History” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013)
52 mins; June 27, 2014
Mark Levene, “The Crisis of Genocide” (Oxford University Press, 2014)
73 hours 40 mins; June 03, 2014
Susan Thomson, “Whispering Truth to Power” (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013)
56 mins; May 24, 2014
Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, “Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (Yale UP, 2014)
61 hours 24 mins; May 11, 2014
Richard Weikart, “Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)
55 mins; May 03, 2014
Donna-Lee Frieze, “Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin” (Yale UP, 2013)
37 mins; May 01, 2014
Steven L. Jacobs, “Lemkin on Genocide” (Lexington Books, 2012)
60 hours 43 mins; April 12, 2014
Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit (Oxford UP, 2011)
42 mins; March 17, 2014