Persecution and Genocide

A History

Gervase Phillips (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

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Routledge
06 August 2024

General & world history; Genocide & ethnic cleansing

This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Topics covered include the persecution of religious minorities in the ancient world and late antiquity, the medieval roots of modern antisemitism, the early modern witch-hunts, the emergence of racial ideologies and their relationship to slavery, colonialism, Russian and Soviet mass deportations, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust. It also introduces students to significant, but less well known, episodes, such as the Albigensian Crusade and the massacres and forced expulsions suffered by the Circassians at the hands of imperial Russia in the 1860s, as the world entered an 'age of genocide'.

By exploring the ideological motivations of the perpetrators, the book invites students to engage with the moral complexities of the past and to reflect upon our own situation today as the 'legatees of two thousand years of persecution'. Gervase Phillips's book is the ideal introduction to the subject for anyone interested in the long and complex history of human persecution.

By: Gervase Phillips (Manchester Metropolitan University UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 839g
ISBN: 9780415695701
ISBN 10: 0415695708
Pages: 358
Publication Date: 06 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gervase Phillips is Principal Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a historian of conflict, persecution, genocide, and slavery. His previous publications include The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513–1550 (1999).

Reviews for Persecution and Genocide: A History

"""Phillips' account of persecution as a dynamic of genocide reaches into the histories Europe and North America exposing the ideological and religious roots of mass violence. The story is meticulously assembled as it portrays the populist political uses of persecution to eradicate the threatening Other. This history of persecution is a moral reckoning and warning."" Christopher Davey, Binghamton University, SUNY, USA"