Genocide

Description
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.

Contents
1. Genocide in History
2. Genocide in Pre-Modern Societies
3. Genocide in the Colonial Age, 1492-1914
4. 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

Features

• Provides the first narrative history of genocide.
• Controversial and provocative - challenges existing views, opinions and statistics, including numbers of victims, and the notion that ethnic cleansing is the same as genocide.
• Critically examines and rejects a number of alleged past and recent genocides.
• Its broad coverage includes early mass murders as well as 20th century genocides