Donald Bloxham

Biographic Data

ID983063
NAMEDonald Bloxham
GIVEN NAMESDonald
FAMILY NAMEBloxham
SIGNATUREBLOXHAM D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-1719-2550
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS63
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT11
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • The 7 October Atrocities and the Annihilation of Gaza: Causes and Responsibilities

    Open AccessDonald BloxhamARTICLEJournal of Genocide Research2025Cited by: 1

    Upon news breaking of the 7 October 2023 atrocities committed by members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, other groups, and elements of Gaza’s civilian population, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC)

  • History, Truthfulness, Politicization, Value Judgements

    Donald BloxhamARTICLEGeschichte und Gesellschaft2024

    This article attempts to establish clarity about the relationships between politicization, value judgements, and truthfulness in historical scholarship. It establishes at least one criterion for distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate politicization based on the imperative of truthfulness. Then it argues that some value judgements and authorial prompts-to-judgement are often unavoidable and are compatible with historians’ commitment to…

  • The Holocaust and Historical Methodology

    Doris L Bergen, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKThe Holocaust and Historical…2022

    In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded. Yet this empirical blossoming has not been accompanied by much theoretical reflection on the historiography. This volume argues that reflection on the historical process of (re)constructing the past is as important for understanding the Holocaust-and, by extension, any past event-as is archival research. It aims to go beyond the dominant paradigm of politic…

  • Past in present

    Open AccessDonald BloxhamARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2020Cited by: 1References: 1

    This essay offers a set of reflections concerning relations between past and present and the necessity, propriety, and process of making value judgements about the past. Mobilizing a range of insights from figures as diverse as Blaise Pascal, Bernard Williams, and R. G. Collingwood, the discussion highlights some of the pitfalls and inconsistencies of the naïve celebration or condemnation of historical actors and their deeds, and underlines what …

  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 2, Politics and Ideology

    Open AccessEvan Mawdsley, Richard J B Bosworth et al.BOOKCambridge History of the Second…2015

    War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the war's origins, dynamics and consequences. Part I examines the ideologies of the combatants and shows how the war can be understood as a struggle of words, ideas and values with the rival powers expressin…

  • The Crisis of Genocide, vol. I: Devastation: The European Rimlands, 1912–1938The Crisis of Genocide, vol. II: Annihilation: The European Rimlands, 1939–1953

    Donald BloxhamARTICLEGerman History2015

    Journal Article The Crisis of Genocide, vol. I: Devastation: The European Rimlands, 1912–1938 The Crisis of Genocide, vol. II: Annihilation: The European Rimlands, 1939–1953 Get access The Crisis of Genocide, vol. I: Devastation: The European Rimlands, 1912–1938 . By Mark Levene . Oxford : Oxford University Press . 2014 . xxii + 545 pp. £85.00 (hardback). The Crisis of Genocide, vol. II: Annihilation: The European Rimlands, 1939–1953 . By Mark Le…

  • Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia

    Roger Cribb, Robert Cribb et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article discusses political genocide in postcolonial Asia, looking at Indonesia, Cambodia, and China. Mass political killing presents a special problem in genocide studies. The slaughter of human beings because of the political beliefs and attitudes they held, or were presumed to have held, cost millions of lives during the twentieth century. The Indonesian killings of 1965–6 cost half a million lives and the killings during the Cultural Rev…

  • Anthropology and Genocide

    Kevin Lewis O’neill, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article explores the relationship between anthropology and genocide. Anthropology is the study of culture — the attitudes, behaviours, and practices that constitute a given community. The anthropology of genocide lends analytical clarity and empirical rigour to a range of issues, including truth, memory, and representation in post-genocidal spaces. Anthropology's growing interest in genocide has a number of roots, including a continued inter…

  • Twentieth‐Century China

    Uradyn E Bulag, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article invokes a Chinese political concept of ‘sinicization’, aiming to capture the nature of ethnic relations in China historically, and the political fate of ethnic groups in contemporary China. Sinicization has powerful genealogical and governmental dimensions; it is not primarily an ‘acculturation’ process as it is understood generally. Sinicization may not kill people directly, but it murders the non- Chinese sense of genealogical diff…

  • Rethinking Genocide in North America

    Gregory D Smithers, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article explores the concept of genocide in North America. Colonial North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries constituted an ever growing number of racially and ethnically heterogeneous sites of trade, exploration, and settlement. As Europeans ventured westward into the North American wilderness, territorial expansion, changing land-use patterns, new economic networks, and different systems of coerced labour all motivated set…

  • National Security Doctrine in Latin America

    Daniel Feierstein, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    During the second half of the twentieth century, large sections of the population were exterminated in various parts of Latin America. Most of these events followed a similar pattern and were the result of what became known as the National Security Doctrine. The practice of systematic annihilation of political enemies in Latin America, which began as early as 1954 with the military coup in Guatemala, continued almost until the beginning of the tw…

  • Genocide and Memory

    Dan Stone, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article explores the history of genocide by looking at collective memories, from the point of view of Western culture. Western culture is suffused with autobiographies, especially with traumatic life narratives about the legacies of abusive childhoods. For the individual victims of genocide, traumatic memories cannot be escaped; for societies, genocide has profound effects that are immediately felt and that people are exhorted never to forge…

  • Political Science and Genocide

    Strau, Scott Straus et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article discusses the relationship between political science and genocide, focusing on three major themes. First, it discusses the evolution of genocide studies within the discipline and expands on this. Second, it identifies seminal contributions that have emerged from some four decades of political science studies of genocide: a methodological emphasis on the comparative method, including both quantitative and qualitative studies; a move t…

  • From Past to Future

    Mark Levene, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article presents two scenarios that might have a huge influence for the prospects of genocide in the future: the carrying capacity of the planet and global warming. The key point about the pursuit of this theme is that the disruptive potential of climate change, whether writ small in terms of the single state, or writ large in terms of the international system, is entirely exponential. It also hints the necessity for a paradigmatic shift in …

  • Sociology and Genocide

    Martin Shaw, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article describes genocide as a crime of social classification, in which power-holders target particular populations for social and often physical destruction. Genocide can be described as a peculiarly sociological crime, in which the activity of social classification is perverted by pseudoscience. This articles argues argued that sociology can make central contributions to genocide studies. As a generalizing, concept-forming discipline it c…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies

    Cathie Carmichael, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies subjects both genocide and the discipline it has spawned to systematic, in-depth investigation. Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline of genocide studies has developed to offer an…

  • Genocide and Mass Violence in the ‘Heart of Darkness’

    Dominik J Schaller, Donald Bloxham et al.BOOKOxford handbook of genocide studies2012

    This article discusses genocide and mass violence in Africa during the colonial period. While European colonial rule lasted only several decades, it had a profound impact on Africa. The history of European colonialism in Africa is of unprecedented socio-economic, political, and cultural change, mass violence, and exploitation. Until recently, the historiography of colonialism and genocide has portrayed the Africans as passive and apathetic victim…

  • Donald Bloxham,The Final Solution: A Genocide(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

    Jürgen Matthäus, Martin Shaw et al.ARTICLEJournal of Genocide Research2011Cited by: 1

  • Europe, the Final Solution and the dynamics of intent

    Donald BloxhamARTICLEPatterns of Prejudice2010

    The scale and scope of the "final solution" of the "Jewish question" were extreme even in the horrific annals of genocide. Bloxham attempts to shed light on the pattern of mass murder in its expansion and contraction by viewing the Holocaust in a set of temporally and culturally specific contexts. It places the Holocaust into a broader European framework of violent ethnopolitics and geopolitics from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twe…

  • Ethnopolitics, Geopolitics, and the Return to War

    Donald BloxhamCHAPTERThe final solution2009

  • The Final Solution: A Genocide

    Donald BloxhamBOOKThe final solution2009

    The Holocaust is frequently depicted in isolation by its historians. A restricted understanding of 'uniqueness' has set the Holocaust apart from history and set up barriers to a better understanding of the racial onslaught. This book combines a detailed re-appraisal of the development of the genocide of the Jews, a full consideration of Nazi policies against other population groups, and a comparative analysis of other modern genocides. The Holoca…

  • Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History

    Donald Bloxham, A Dirk MosesBOOKEmpire, Colony, Genocide2008

  • Historiography of Genocide

    A Dirk Moses, Ann Curthoys et al.BOOKHistoriography of Genocide2008

  • Organized Mass Murder: Structure, Participation, and Motivation in Comparative Perspective

    Donald BloxhamARTICLEHolocaust and Genocide Studies2008Cited by: 7References: 28

    Organizational structures have played a key role in modern state-sponsored mass murder. The author of this article criticizes and synthesizes the existing scholarship, focusing first on historiographical debates surrounding the Holocaust. He then considers the Stalinist purges, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Armenian Genocide in the light of this and other theoretical literature. The article sheds light on the ways organizational norms have intera…

  • Modernity and Genocide

    Open AccessDonald BloxhamARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2008