国民国家の時代のジェノサイド 第２巻：西洋の興隆とジェノサイドの到来 Genocide in the Age of the Nation State: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide (Genocide in the Age of the Nation State")

Levene, Mark

I. B. Tauris & Company（2005/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 472 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781845110574
• DDC分類 304.663

基本説明

Genocide developed out of modernity and the striving for the nation-state, both essentially Western experiences. One critical outcome, on the cusp of modernity, was the French revolutionary destruction of the Vendée. Levene finishes this volume at the 1914 watershed with the destabilishing effects of the 'rise of the West' on older Ottoman, Chinese, Russian and Austrian empires.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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 Vendee - 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