LAWRENCE DAVIDSON is a professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest and coauthor of A Concise History of the Middle East.

• 1. Theoretical Foundations2. Cultural Genocide and the American Indians3. Russia and the Jews in the Nineteenth Century4. Israel and Palestinian Cultural Genocide5. The Chinese Assimilation of Tibet6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"Davidson does not shy away from controversy as he seeks to challenge the thought collectives that justify everything from bulldozing villages and cultural sites to banning languages and religious practices. Recommended."(Choice) "Davidson provides us with a unique and creative way of looking at the phenomenon of collective violence and constructs a provocative, carefully argued, and at times unsettling, critique of the simplistic models." - Gary Fields (University of California, San Diego)

LAWRENCE DAVIDSON is a professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest and coauthor of A Concise History of the Middle East.

• 1. Theoretical Foundations2. Cultural Genocide and the American Indians3. Russia and the Jews in the Nineteenth Century4. Israel and Palestinian Cultural Genocide5. The Chinese Assimilation of Tibet6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"Davidson does not shy away from controversy as he seeks to challenge the thought collectives that justify everything from bulldozing villages and cultural sites to banning languages and religious practices. Recommended."(Choice) "Davidson provides us with a unique and creative way of looking at the phenomenon of collective violence and constructs a provocative, carefully argued, and at times unsettling, critique of the simplistic models." - Gary Fields (University of California, San Diego)

LAWRENCE DAVIDSON is a professor of history at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood, Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America’s National Interest and coauthor of A Concise History of the Middle East.

• 1. Theoretical Foundations2. Cultural Genocide and the American Indians3. Russia and the Jews in the Nineteenth Century4. Israel and Palestinian Cultural Genocide5. The Chinese Assimilation of Tibet6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"Davidson does not shy away from controversy as he seeks to challenge the thought collectives that justify everything from bulldozing villages and cultural sites to banning languages and religious practices. Recommended."(Choice) "Davidson provides us with a unique and creative way of looking at the phenomenon of collective violence and constructs a provocative, carefully argued, and at times unsettling, critique of the simplistic models." - Gary Fields (University of California, San Diego)