... and differences among the three categories. The introduction also addresses the scattered state of atrocity studies as a field of academic inquiry and introduces the Handbook on Atrocity Crimes as the pioneering volume combining major theoretical and empirical research on all three categories of atrocity crimes...

... tactics Genocide Massacres Atrocity studies Scorched earth Irish plantations 11 September 1649: following an artillery bombardment, an English parliamentary army, commanded by Oliver Cromwell, stormed the walled town of Drogheda on the east coast of Ireland, where a large royalist garrison...