Genocide

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.

• Provides the first narative history of genocide.
• Highly topical - many recent examples of alleged genocides - Yougoslavia, Rwanda etc.
• Controversial and provocative - challenges existing views, opinions and statistics, including numbers of victims, and the notion that ethnic cleansing equals genocide.
• Critically examines and rejects a number of alleged past and recent genocides.
• Not just 20th century - looks at early mass murders.

Many people believe that we live in an ¿age of genocides¿. William

D. Rubinstein provides a unique chronological account of genocide down the

ages, ranging from infamous mass murders directed by Hitlwer, Stalin and Pol Pot through

to slaughters virtually unknown today, such as the Taiping

rebellion in China and the appalling mass killings

in Paraguay during the 1860s.

 

Challenging existing definitions, opinions, and statistics, Genocide's

gripping historical narrative and original arguments make it thought-provoking

and stimulating read.

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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)

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