Book is incredibly biased and is a work of historical nihilism. It takes a very expansive definition of genocide, but then only focuses this broad definition on official enemies. Full western liberal brain worms on display.

The grossest thing it does is characterize the Haitian revolution's killing of slavers as a "genocide by the subaltern."

I'd prefer to not have to read it in full and examine it's sources (which I'd need to do to thoroughly critique it). So if someone else has already done so that'd be great.

Found one: https://mronline.org/2010/08/14/adam-jones-on-rwanda-and-genocide-a-reply/

I'll try some more searches on lefty websites instead of the whole net or academic databases.

  • Hewaoijsdb [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I skimmed a handful of academic reviews and they were all roundly positive. I also searched through some leftist journals/publications and didn't find any reviews. I'm not an expert in the field, however, so it might exist, but idk.

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, that's my finding so far too. I might try to target a few areas of it for critique. One of my coworkers is planning to teach a class with this as the primary text.

      Edit: https://mronline.org/2010/08/14/adam-jones-on-rwanda-and-genocide-a-reply