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Michael Barnett, “Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda” (Cornell UP, 2016)
Episode 353
This podcast marks the beginning of a new occasional series of podcasts about the genocide in Rwanda. In the next few months we’ll hear from Timothy …
9 years, 2 months ago
Leonard Grob and John Roth, “Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture,” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
Episode 352
Every time I teach Comparative Genocide, I distribute a letter to the students preparing them for the particular challenges of taking a course about …
9 years, 4 months ago
Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Episode 351
Michael Bryant’s book is both less and more ambitious than its title. He’s writing less of a history of war crimes than he is a history of the idea a…
9 years, 5 months ago
Bert Ingelaere, “Inside Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: Seeking Justice After Genocide” (U. Wisconsin Press, 2016)
Episode 350
Rwanda’s homegrown gacaca law has been widely hailed as a successful indigenous solution to the unprecedented problem of the country’s 1994 genocide.…
9 years, 6 months ago
James Q. Whitman, “Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Episode 349
James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School, began researching the book that became Hitler’s Americ…
9 years, 6 months ago
Anuradha Chakravarty, “Investing in Authoritarian Rule: Punishment and Patronage in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts for Genocide Crimes,” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 348
In my time doing this podcast, I’ve covered a number of books about transitional justice. All have been insightful and interesting. But few of them f…
9 years, 7 months ago
Richard Weikart, “Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich” (Regnery History, 2016)
Episode 347
Trying to figure out what Hitler “really” thought about anything is difficult because he was–among many other things–a clever, opportunistic politici…
9 years, 7 months ago
Deborah Lipstadt, “Holocaust: An American Understanding” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
Episode 346
In her most recent book, Holocaust: An American Understanding (Rutgers University Press), Deborah Lipstadt reviews and analyzes the emergence of Holo…
9 years, 7 months ago
Edward Westermann, “Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2016)
Episode 345
The intersection of colonialism and mass atrocities is one of the most exciting insights of the past years of genocide studies. But most people don’t…
9 years, 8 months ago
Mark Glickman, “Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books” (The Jewish Publication Society, 2016)
Episode 344
In Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books (The Jewish Publication Society, 2016), Rabbi Mark Glickman, of Temple Bnai Tikvah in Calgary, exam…
9 years, 8 months ago