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The most comprehensive account of this most tragic chapter of world history A stimulating and unique argument, linking the rise of the nation state with modern genocide Provides an extensive and global historical framework How should we understand genocide in the modern world? As an aberration from the norms of a dominant liberal international society? Or rather as a guide to the very dysfunctional nature of the international system itself? The Meaning of Genocide is the first work of its nature to consider the phenomenon within a broad context of world historical development. In this book, Mark Levene sets out the conceptual issues in the study of genocide, addressing the fundamental problems of defining genocide and understanding what we mean by perpetrators and victims, before placing it in the context of world history. The Meaning of Genocide is the first of a major four-volume survey which will become the definitive work on the subject.

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'very impressive' Eric Hobsbawm 'in tracing the phenomenon back beyond the twentieth century to the origins of the nation state, Levene's study is likely to transform the way we think about genocide.' London Review of Books 'an extended wide-ranging discourse on the innumerable definitional difficulties in coming to terms with the many ambiguities of the term [genocide]. The book is marked by a high level of intelligence and wide-ranging knowledge.' Times Higher Educational Supplement

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Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton, and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish:non-Jewish relations. His works include War, Jews and the New Europe (1992) which was awarded the annual Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, and with Penny Roberts ed., The Massacre in History (1999). He is also a peace and environmental activist, and co-founder of the Forum for the Study of Crisis in the 21st century.

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