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Genocide Dictionary
Traveler Staff
Issue date: 1/18/08 Section: News
A UA professor and his colleague decided to begin work on a dictionary of genocide five years ago. The project, however, turned into a 500-page encyclopedia covering more than 600 items in detail, according to a UA press release.
Samuel Totten and Australian colleague Paul Bartrop's "Dictionary of Genocide" offers a comprehensive guide to the study of genocide for undergraduates, graduates and others in the field of genocide studies, according to the press release.
The book was printed last year as the first of its kind, and its entries include information that ranges from U.N. definitions of genocide to the history of genocide, with details about genocides that have occurred around the world and throughout history, according to the press release.
Totten began his studies in 1988 with the Holocaust of World War II in Germany, where more than 11 million people were killed by troops led by Adolf Hitler. Totten started to expand his studies when he realized that many scholars were already studying the Holocaust, but only a few studies were focused on the prevention of genocide, according to the press release.
Totten has written and edited numerous other publications and has traveled to Rwanda and to the Chad/Sudan border to speak to survivors and refugees, according to the press release. He has been part of the UA faculty since 1987.
Bartrop is the head of the Department of History at Bialik College, Melbourne, Victoria. He is also an honorary research fellow at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
Totten and Bartrop met 12 years ago at a Holocaust conference and have collaborated on several projects, according to the press release.
Samuel Totten and Australian colleague Paul Bartrop's "Dictionary of Genocide" offers a comprehensive guide to the study of genocide for undergraduates, graduates and others in the field of genocide studies, according to the press release.
The book was printed last year as the first of its kind, and its entries include information that ranges from U.N. definitions of genocide to the history of genocide, with details about genocides that have occurred around the world and throughout history, according to the press release.
Totten began his studies in 1988 with the Holocaust of World War II in Germany, where more than 11 million people were killed by troops led by Adolf Hitler. Totten started to expand his studies when he realized that many scholars were already studying the Holocaust, but only a few studies were focused on the prevention of genocide, according to the press release.
Totten has written and edited numerous other publications and has traveled to Rwanda and to the Chad/Sudan border to speak to survivors and refugees, according to the press release. He has been part of the UA faculty since 1987.
Bartrop is the head of the Department of History at Bialik College, Melbourne, Victoria. He is also an honorary research fellow at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
Totten and Bartrop met 12 years ago at a Holocaust conference and have collaborated on several projects, according to the press release.
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