Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State

The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide

Bibliographic Data

ID19911537
AuthorsMark Levene (0000-0001-8632-4732, corresponding author)
Year2005
Publication date2005-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGenocide in the Age of the Nation-State (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B. Tauris & Co Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755623815
OpenAlexW4231674439
ISBN9780755623815
LanguageEN
Citations received26

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

Criminology · Genocide · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Cambodian History and Society · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law

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