BOOK LIST
These books should be on
2-hour reserve at Green Library.
When you've chosen a book, let me know by e-mail or in person,
and I'll either switch it to 3-day reserve, or discharge it
so you can check it out in your own name.
In principle, more than one student can write on the same book.
The reserve copy, however, will go to the first student to choose it.
Any other students wishing to write on that book
will have to borrow or buy it themselves.
You may write on a book that's not on the list,
if you receive the instructor's approval.
The deadline for letting me know what book you've chosen
is Monday, July 21, by the beginning of class.
(NOTE: This is a change from the original syllabus,
which gave the date as Thursday, July 17.)
I encourage you however to decide earlier than that.
Milica Bookman, After involuntary migration: the political economy of refugee encampments (2002)
Joanna Bourke, An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in 20th-C. Warfare (1999)
Ian Buruma, The wages of guilt: memories of war in Germany and Japan (1994)
An internationally famous journalist examines how nations and people face, flee, or fight terrible truths.Roger Cohen, Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo (1998)
A New York Times reporter follows several families in this account of the war and its historical background.Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (2001)
Reconstructs the events of a summer day in 1941, revealing the perpetrators to be not Nazis but local Poles. An important book that caused a sensation in Poland.Stanley Hoffmann, World disorders: troubled peace in the post-Cold War era (1998)
A well-known essayist (New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs) and scholar examines in particular the question of humanitarian intervention.Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (1998)
Reflections on the dilemmas of global humanitarianism in ethnic conflicts, by a journalist and intellectual who has visited many of the most brutal war zones.Michael Ignatieff, Blood and belonging: journeys into the new nationalism (1994)
Croatia, Serbia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (1999)
Argues that distinctions between internal and external wars, between repression and aggression, have become increasingly blurred, demanding a new "cosmopolitan" approach to security. Bosnia-Herzegovina serves as case study.Neil J. Kressel, Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror (2nd ed., 2002 [1996])
A social psychologist's view.Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (1995)
Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto (1988)
Charles S. Maier, The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity (1988)
Examining the debates among German intellectuals about the uniqueness of Nazi crimes, Maier sheds light on broader questions about how a nation confronts its past.Czeslaw Milosz, Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition (1968)
The Nobel-prize winning poet recounts his early life -- from his childhood during WWI to his exile in Paris in 1951 -- against the backdrop of his native land's turbulent history and its effects on the mixed population (Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, Germans, Belarussians, Russians, ...).Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (1998)
A Harvard law professor considers the strategies and results of truth commissions, war-crimes trials, and reparations.Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics (1993)
Reflections on the past and present of nationalism and ethnic conflict by the late senator from New York.Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, ed., Women, violence and war: wartime victimization of refugees in the Balkans (2000 [orig.: 1995])
David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (1998)
A reconstruction of intercommunal relations in the 14th-c. Crown of Aragon (NE Spain), with broader implications: Nirenberg argues that violence against Jews and Muslims was not necessarily a sign of growing intolerance, but rather an integral part of co-existence.Luisa Lang Owen, Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered (2003)
A German from Yugoslavia recounts what happened to her and her community at the end of the Second World War.Chuck Sudetic, Blood and vengeance: one family's story of the war in Bosnia (1998)
A New York Times correspondent on how a family in eastern Bosnia experienced the events that culminated in the mass killings near Srebrenica in 1995.Vamik D. Volkan, Cyprus -- War and Adaptation: A Psychoanalytic History of two Ethnic Groups in Conflict (1979)
Vamik D. Volkan and Norman Itzkowitz, Turks and Greeks: neighbours in conflict (1994)
Takes a broader look at the history of Turkish-Greek conflict than Volkan's book on Cyprus (above), using a similar psychological framework.Michael Walzer, On Toleration (1997)
A philosopher's essays on how societies do, and should, deal with multiculturalism.Stefan Wolff, Disputed territories: the transnational dynamics of ethnic conflict settlement (2003)
A scholarly look at ethnic conflicts across state borders (e.g., Ireland, German-speakers in France and Italy).