Genocide and Propaganda: A Primary Source Collection - Hardcover

Bartrop, Paul R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1440876894 ISBN 13: 9781440876899

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

A Booklist Editors' Choice book, 2025
A 2026 RUSA Outstanding Reference Source

Perpetrators of genocidal violence have regularly orchestrated propaganda campaigns using newspapers, radio, televisions, the internet, and other means to justify mass killings.

Through 50 primary sources, readers will learn about 11 genocides, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, including campaigns against Native Americans, the Holocaust, and more recent tragedies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda. During these periods of history, propaganda was used to alienate the target population; provide reasons for the “necessary” persecution of the group; and reinforce the authority of the perpetrating government. Each section begins with an introductory essay exploring the course of the genocide, giving readers the background knowledge needed to understand the documents that follow. Each piece of propaganda is accompanied by a brief introduction that provides key contextual information, as well as in-depth analysis of the impact that propaganda had. Augmenting the main text are a collection of 19 high-interest sidebars and an end-of-volume bibliography.

About this title

About the Author

Paul R. Bartrop, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA and Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 36 books, including The Routledge History of the First World War (2024), The Routledge History of the Second World War (2022), and (most recently) Flight and Rescue from Norway during the Holocaust (2026).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440876894
• ISBN 13: 9781440876899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240