The volume is global in scope, something of increasing importance in the study of genocide. Presenting genocide as an extremely diverse phenomenon, this book is a wide-ranging and in-depth view of the field that will be valuable for all those interested in the historical context of genocide.
Cathie Carmichael is Professor of History at the University of East Anglia and has been Head of School since 2012. She is the author and editor of several books including Slovenia and the Slovenes: A Small State in the New Europe (2000) (with James Gow), Language and Nationalism in Europe (2000) (co-edited with the late Stephen Barbour), Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition (2002) and Genocide before the Holocaust (2009). She is an editor of the Journal of Genocide Research.
Richard C. Maguire
is Associate Dean for Employability and Senior Lecturer in Public History in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of East Anglia. He has written on the culture of British nuclear policy and now researches public history, focussing on public understandings of African and military history.