Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death

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Acknowledgments Introduction by Isidor Walliman and 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 by Kurt Jonassohn and Frank Chalk Human Destructiveness and Politics: The Twentieth Century as an Age of Genocide by Roger W. Smith The Etiology of Genocides by Barbara Harff Genocide and the Reconstruction of Social Theory: Observations on the Exclusivity of Collective Death by Irving Louis Horowitz Genocide, The Holocaust, and Triage by John K. Roth Genocide and Total War: A Preliminary Comparison by Eric Markusen Social Madness by Ronald Aronson Part II--Understanding Occurrences of Genocide: Some Case Studies and Investigations of Related Social Processes Was the Holocaust Unique? A Peculiar Question? by Alan Rosenberg The Holocaust and Historical Explanation by Robert G.L. Waite Discrimination, Persecution, Theft, and Murder under Color of Law: The Totalitarian Corruption of the German Legal System, 1933-1945 by Gunter W. Remmling Relations of Genocide: Land and Lives in the Colonization of Australia by Tony Barta Middleman Minorities and Genocide by Walter P. Zenner Afterword: Genocide and Civilization by Richard Rubenstein Bibliographical Essay About the Contributors