Ethnic Cleansing in Hist

Fall 2019

Unmixing Peoples: Ethnic Cleansing in History

Listed in: History, as HIST-444

Faculty

Sergey Glebov (Section 01)

Description

[ EU/AS/US/TE/TS/C] What is ethnic cleansing? How did various historical actors (from medieval Mongols to modern colonial settlers to nationalists and Communists) decide to remove – and sometimes exterminate – entire peoples? Did ethnic cleansing exist throughout human history, or is it a distinctly modern phenomenon? How did specific historical processes, such as settler colonialism, state and nation-building, ideological and military conflicts contribute to ethnic cleansing? Finally, what is the relationship between modern human sciences and population politics and ethnic cleansing? This research seminar will explore different instances of ethnic cleansing and discuss under what circumstances peoples are unmixed. We will study a variety of materials, such as witness accounts, victim and perpetrator narratives, official reports, as well as analytical and historical studies of ethnic cleansing. Each student will select a case study and write a research paper of 25 pages.

Limited to 18 students. Fall semester. Professor Glebov.

If Overenrolled: History majors will have priority, seniors first, then juniors.

Keywords

Attention to Issues of Class, Attention to Issues of Race, Attention to Research, Transnational or World Cultures Taught in English

Course times and locations

HIST 444 - L/D

Section 01
Th 02:30 PM - 05:15 PM SCCE A019

Textbooks

Below are the textbooks used in this course, along with pricing information and availability at local bookstores. The price range shown is based upon queries to multiple online booksellers; click on the the price field to see detailed pricing information.

This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.

ISBN	Title	Publisher	Author(s)	Comment	Book Store	Price
9780691147307	"They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 23)	Princeton University Press	Suny, Ronald Grigor		Amherst Books	From $7.44-$37.94
9781451684544	Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz	Simon & Schuster	Bartov, Omer		Amherst Books	From $11.00-$24.45

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

Offerings

2022-23: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2019, Fall 2021