Books
This is not intended to be a bibliography on genocides, but merely a brief listing of some major works dealing with their comparative aspects.
If the following books are not available at your local bookstore, they may be purchased from their publisher or from either of these Internet bookstores: Amazon or Barnes & Noble
Read reviews of five recent books on Genocide Studies in an interview with Norman Naimark - Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander, Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder, Blood and Soil by Ben Kiernan, and A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power.
Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn. The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990. See: Table of Contents.
Kurt Jonassohn and Karin Solveig Björnson. Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1998. See: Table of Contents.
The Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence is launched on the web. It provides chronological indexes, case studies, analytical contributions on socio-political violence in a given country, a glossary of the terms most often used in genocide studies as well as theoretical papers written by the most representative authors in the field. To view it, please click here: Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
Dinah L. Shelton (Editor in Chief) with Howard Adelman, Frank Chalk, Alexandre Kiss, and William A. Schabas (Associate Editors). Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. 3 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference (Thomson Gale), 2004.
See: Table of Contents (MS Word format). Purchase information.
Colin Tatz, Peter Arnold, and Sandra Tatz, editors. Genocide Perspectives II: Essays on Holocaust and Genocide. Sydney: Brandl & Schlesinger with the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2003. See: Table of Contents.
Colin Tatz, editor-in-chief. Genocide Perspectives I: Essays in Comparative Genocide. Sydney: Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies, Macquarie University, 1997. See: Table of Contents.
(This is an annual publication. For more information.)
Leo Kuper. Genocide: Its Political Use In The Twentieth Century. New York: Penguin, 1981 and New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.
Eric Weitz. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. See: Table of Contents. See review by Frank Chalk in Slavic Review 64, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 403-404.
Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan.The Spector of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. See: Table of Contents
Israel W. Charny, editor in chief. Encyclopedia of Genocide. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2000. For more information.
Israel W. Charny. How Can We Commit the Unthinkable? Genocide, The Human Cancer. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1982
Isidor Walliman and Michael N. Dobkowski, eds. Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death. New York: Greenwood, 1987.
Israel W. Charny, ed. Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. 3 vols . London: Mansell and New York: Facts on File, 1988-1994.
Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Walliman. Genocide in Our Time. An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1992.
Helen Fein. Genocide: A Sociological Perspective. London: Sage Publications, 1993.
R. I. Rummel. Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder since 1900. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publisher, 1994.
Yves Ternon. L’État criminel: Les Génocides au XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 1995. The German version is Der verbrecherische Staat: Volkermord im 20. Jahrhundert. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 1996. (See book review in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 12 / 1, Spring 1998, pp. 172-175).
Irving Louis Horowitz. Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power. Fourth Edition. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publisher, 1997.
Alexander Laban Hinton. Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Table of Contents.
Benjamin A. Valentino. Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Michael Mann. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Table of Contents.
Manus I. Midlarsky. The Killing Trap: Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Table of Contents.
Mark Levene. Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005-. Vol. 1: The Meaning of Genocide; Vol. 2: The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide.
Jacques Sémelin. Purifier et détruire: usage politiques des massacres et génocides. Paris: Seuil, 2005.
Adam Jones. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
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For more recent books on comparative studies of genocide, connect to the Jonassohn Genocide Collection of the Concordia University Library.
