About the Book

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Part 1: The Origins of Genocide
2. Genocide in Antiquity and Early Modernity
3. The Twentieth Century: Conceptualizing genocide

Part 2: Genocide
4. Genocide of Indigenous Peoples
4a. Box Case-Study: Tibet under Chinese rule
5. The Armenian Genocide, 1915-17
5a. Box Case-Study: The Anfal campaign [Iraqi Kurdistan], 1987-88
6. Stalin's Purges and the Ukrainian Famine
6a. Box Case-Study: Chechnya
7. The Jewish Holocaust, 1933-45
7a. Box Case-Study: The Nanjing massacre, 1937-1938
8. Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
8a. Box Case-Study: East Timor, 1975-1999
9. Bosnia and Kosovo
9a. Box Case-Study: Bangladesh, 1971
10. Rwanda, 1994
10a. Box Case-Study: Congo

Part 3: Social Science Perspectives
11. Psychology
12. Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Science
13. Imperialism and War
14. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
15. Gendering Genocide
16. Memory, Forgetting, and Denial

Part 4: The Future of Genocide
17. Punishing Genocide
18. Strategies of Prevention and Intervention