Preface to the Paperback Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Isidor Wallimann

Michael N. Dobkowski

PART I CONCEPTUALIZING, CLASSIFYING, DEFINING, AND EXPLAINING GENOCIDE: SOME MACRO PERSPECTIVES

A Typology of Genocide and Some Implications for the Human Rights Agenda

Kurt Jonassohn

Frank Chalk

Human Destructiveness and Politics: The Twentieth Century as an Age of Genocide

Roger W. Smith

The Etiology of Genocides

Barbara Harff

Genocide and the Reconstruction of Social Theory: Observations on the Exclusivity of Collective Death

Irving Louis Horowitz

Genocide, the Holocaust, and Triage

John K. Roth

Genocide and Total War: A Preliminary Comparison

Eric Markusen

Social Madness

Ronald Aronson

PART II UNDERSTANDING OCCURRENCES OF GENOCIDE: SOME CASE STUDIES AND INVESTIGATIONS OF RELATED SOCIAL PROCESSES

Was the Holocaust Unique?: A Peculiar Question?

Alan Rosenberg

The Holocaust and Historical Explanation

Robert G.L. Waite

Discrimination, Persecution, Theft, and Murder under Color of Law: The Totalitarian Corruption of the German Legal System, 1933-1945

Gunter W. Remmling

The Ultimate Repression: The Genocide of the Armenians, 1915-1917

Gerard J. Libaridian

Relations of Genocide: Land and Lives in the Colonization of Australia

Tony Barta

Middleman Minorities and Genocide

Walter P. Zenner

Afterword: Genocide and Civilization

Richard L. Rubenstein

Bibliographical Essay

Index

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