LEADER 04136nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910461508803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-49341-0 010 $a9786613588647 010 $a0-8135-5344-X 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813553443 035 $a(CKB)2670000000161001 035 $a(OCoLC)781378079 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10540546 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000742812 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11401448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000742812 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10780387 035 $a(PQKB)11538238 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC871841 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17731 035 $a(DE-B1597)530246 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813553443 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL871841 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10540546 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358864 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000161001 100 $a20110609d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCultural genocide$b[electronic resource] /$fLawrence Davidson 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (162 p.) 225 1 $aGenocide, political violence, human rights series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8135-5243-5 311 $a0-8135-5349-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTheoretical foundations -- Cultural genocide and the American Indians -- Russia and the Jews in the nineteenth century -- Israel and Palestinian cultural genocide -- The Chinese assimilation of Tibet -- Conclusion. 330 $aMost scholars of genocide focus on mass murder. Lawrence Davidson, by contrast, explores the murder of culture. He suggests that when people have limited knowledge of the culture outside of their own group, they are unable to accurately assess the alleged threat of others around them. Throughout history, dominant populations have often dealt with these fears through mass murder. However, the shock of the Holocaust now deters today?s great powers from the practice of physical genocide. Majority populations, cognizant of outside pressure and knowing that they should not resort to mass murder, have turned instead to cultural genocide as a ?second best? politically determined substitute for physical genocide. In Cultural Genocide, this theory is applied to events in four settings, two events that preceded the Holocaust and two events that followed it: the destruction of American Indians by uninformed settlers who viewed these natives as inferior and were more intent on removing them from the frontier than annihilating them; the attack on the culture of Eastern European Jews living within Russian-controlled areas before the Holocaust; the Israeli attack on Palestinian culture; and the absorption of Tibet by the People?s Republic of China. In conclusion, Davidson examines the mechanisms that may be used to combat today?s cultural genocide as well as the contemporary social and political forces at work that must be overcome in the process. 410 0$aGenocide, political violence, human rights series. 606 $aEthnic conflict 606 $aPersecution$xSocial aspects 606 $aAssimilation (Sociology) 606 $aIndians, Treatment of$zNorth America$xHistory 606 $aJews$zRussia$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aPalestinian Arabs$zIsrael$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aTibet Autonomous Region (China)$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnic conflict. 615 0$aPersecution$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aAssimilation (Sociology) 615 0$aIndians, Treatment of$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions 615 0$aPalestinian Arabs$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.8009 700 $aDavidson$b Lawrence$f1945-$0662149 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461508803321 996 $aCultural genocide$92479304 997 $aUNINA