Morrock Richard. The Psychology of Genocide and Violent Oppression

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003. 296 pages. Language: English. Donald Bloxham here examines the actions and trials of German soldiers and policemen, the use of legal evidence, the refractory functions of the courtroom, and Allied political and cultural preconceptions of both 'Germanism' and of German criminality. His evidence shows conclusively that the trials were a failure: the greatest of all 'crimes against humanity' — the 'final so...

The Social Contract, Winter 2005-2006. 12 p. На англ. языке. Статья Р. Данкена о предполагаемом конце индустриальной цивилизации около 2030 г. Вывод основан на тенденции изменения душевого производства энергии, которое не росло в 1979 - 2008 г. и затем стало снижаться. Вследствие экономического коллапса, численность человечества может снизиться до 2 миллиардов к 2050 г. (Название "Олдувай" взято от известного места находок останков протолюдей...

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 406 pages. Language: English. This collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts, with a focus on the twentieth century. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide, the victims of Stalinist terror, the Holocaust, and imperial Japan. Several authors explore colonialism and address t...

The Post Carbon Reader Series: Foundation Concepts. 2010. 11 p. На англ. языке. В данной статье (извлечении из недавно опубликованной книги "Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises") Р. Хейнберг рассматривает определяющую роль источников энергии для человечества и считает, что наступил конец "эпохи изобилия", основанной на дешевых источниках энергии. Перед всемирными лидерами стоят четыре трудноразрешимые задачи: быстро снизить зависим...

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A Division of Lexington Books. 2009. 370 pages. Language: English. Confronting Genocide is a collection of essays by recognized scholars. In addition to theoretical thinking about both religion and genocide and the relationship between the two, these authors look at the tragedies of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Sudan from their own unique vantage point. Appendi...

Malden – Oxford – Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. – 367 p. – (The peoples of Europe). The Vandals have not been treated kindly by history, or by historians. For almost a hundred years, the group exerted a massive influence over the crumbling Roman world. From ad 439 when the Vandals first occupied Carthage, they created a strikingly precocious kingdom in the shadow of the old empire. For half a century they dominated the politics of the Medit...

New-York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. - 480 p. In 1944, Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide to describe a foreign occupation that destroyed or permanently crippled a subject population. In this tradition, Empire, Colony, Genocide embeds genocide in the epochal geopolitical transformations of the past 500 years: the European colonization of the globe, the rise and fall of the continental land empires, violent decolonization, and the formati...

Bodmin: Mpg books Ltd, 1998. - 296 p. Essays issuing from the World History Conference held at Wesleyan University on March 25-26, 1994. An early reviwer said this of the volume: "We have here a very valuable collection that must help anyone to clarify what world history is. This is by no means a hegemonic book, where we end up being told how to 'do' world history. To the contrary, the collection is particularly useful because it represents so m...