1. Genocide in History. 2. Genocide in Pre-Modern Societies. 3. Genocide in the Colonial Age, 1492-1914. 3. Genocide in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-79. 5. Genocide in the Era of Ethnic Cleansing and Third World Dictators, 1945-2000. 6. Outlawing Genocide and the Lessons of History. Appendix: The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Index.
Genocide is the grimmest and most relevant of modern tragedies. This stimulating and original work provides the definitive acount of genocide, and is essential reading for all who wish to understand the real meaning of mass murder throughout history.
William D. Rubinstein is at the University of Aberystwyth and has written The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis (Routledge, 1997).
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