Kurt Jonassohn and Karin Solveig Bj–rnson.
Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations in Comparative Perspective.
New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. Forthcoming Fall 1997.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction

PART I: THINKING ABOUT CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS AND THEIR HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

1. What is Genocide?

2. A Conceptual Perspective
Introduction; The Origins of Utilitarian Genocide; An Excursus on Varieties of Slavery; Modern Ideological Genocides; A Note on Definitions and Typologies; Conclusion

3. Hunger as a Low-Technology Weapon: with Special Reference to Genocide. Introduction; The Question of Intent; An Abbreviated History; Twentieth Century Cases; Summary; What is to be done?

4. The Tragic Circle of Famines, Genocides, and Refugees. Introduction; Definitions; Food Shortages as Evidence of Genocide; Refugees as Sources of Information; Summary

5. The Consequences of Ideological Genocide and Their Role in Prevention. Introduction; The Albigensian Crusade; The Spanish Inquisition; The Armenian Genocide; Genocides in the Soviet Union; Nazi Germany and the Holocaust; The Cambodian Tragedy; Conclusion; Afterword

6. Some Antecedents of the Holocaust Denial Literature Introduction; A Brief History; Some Domestic Sources of German Racism; Denials after World War I; The Hitler Period; Denials since World War II; Conclusion

7. On Jewish Resistance: An Essay on Perceptions Introduction; Jewish Resistance to Nazi Victimization; The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Reasons why Jewish Resistance is so Little Known; Conclusion

8. Prevention without Prediction
Introduction; A Matter of Definition; Early Recognition; Education; Publicity; Economic Sanctions; Organizational Linkages; The Law; Conclusions

9. Re-Thinking the Conceptualization of Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations

10. On the Prevention of Unpunished Crimes
Introduction; Whose Crime; The Collectivity as Perpetrator; The Individual as Perpetrator; Conclusion.

11. A Summation.

PART 2: METHODS IN COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON GENOCIDE

12. Preliminary Considerations
Some Specifics of Genocide Research; A Note on Definitions and Typologies

13. The Language of Data.
A New Word for an Ancient Crime; Translation; Evolution of Language; Cultural Points of Reference; Place Names; Writing Systems and Transliteration; Manipulation of Language

14. Sources of Data.

15. Kinds of Data for Contemporary Cases.

16. Quality of Data.
Introduction; Journalists Reports;The Western Media; Foreign Wars, War Correspondents, and the Cutting Room Floor; Censorship and the Western Media; Censorship and Compliance: The Case of Walter Duranty; Editorial Bias; False Reports; Ownership and Censorship; Western Culture and the Western Media; Conclusion
Site Visits
Other Sources of Data
National and International Governments
Humanitarian Aid NGOs
Human Rights NGOs

PART II: REVISITING THE PAST

Introduction

17. Pre-Twentieth Century Perpetrators
Case 1: The Destruction of the Greek City States of Selinus and Himera in Sicily by the Carthaginians, 409 B.C.; Case 2: The Defeat of Numatia in 133 B.C.; Case 3: The Asian Vespers of 88 B.C.; Case 4: Diocletian’s Persecution of the Christians; Case 5: The Fourth Crusade, 1202-1204; Case 6: Vlad III of Walachia; Case 7: The Conquest of Mexico, 1519-1521;. Case 8: The Sack of Novgorod in 1570 by Ivan the Terrible; Case 9: The Wars of the Vendee; Case 10: Bulgarian Atrocities in 1876; Case 11: Argentina in 1878-1885; Case 12: Brazil’s Backlands 1886-1897

18. Perpetrators in India
Introduction; Case 13: The Persecution of the Jains; Case 14: The Fate of Ghazni; Case 15: The Conquest of Bihar; Case 16: Balban’s persecution of the Meos; Case 17: Terror under ’Ala-ud-din; Case 18: Timur’s Conquests; Case 19: The Repeated Victimizations of Vijayanagar; Case 20: Babur’s Style of Warfare; Summary

19. Perpetrators In China
ntroduction; Case 21: The Checkered Fate of the Ancient Capital at Lo-Yang; Case 22: The Taiping Rebellion of 1850-1864; Case 23: Famines

20. Perpetrators In Colonial Africa
Introduction; Case 24: Britain in Matabeleland and Mashonaland in 1896-1897; Case 25: The Belgian Congo; Case 26: French "Pacification" of the Ivory Coast and the (French) Congo; Case 27: The Graziani Massacre in Italian Ethiopia; Case 28: The War Against the Hehe in 1891-1898 in German East Africa; Case 29: The Maji Maji Uprising in 1905-1907; Case 30: Revolt Against the Germans in Kamerun, 1903-1908

21. More Twentieth Century Cases
Case 31: Kazakhs in the USSR in the 1930s; Case 32: The Chittagong Hill People in Bangladesh; Case 33: Myanmar (Burma); Case 34: The Rohingyas; Case 35: Oppression of Other Minorities and Political Opposition

22. The Relevance of History for the Case of the Former Yugoslavia
ntroduction; The Influence of Geography; Antiquity; The Schism between Greek and Latin Christendom; Medieval Croatia and Serbia; The Ottoman Empire; The Rise of Balkan Nationalism; Nationalist Ideology: Hegemony or Negation; A New Yugoslav State; The Killing of Jews in the Independent States of Croatia and Serbia, 1939-1945; The Killing of Gypsies in Serbia and Croatia, 1941-1945; The Massacre of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia; The Resistance; Yugoslavia under Tito; The Abuse of History; Conclusion

Afterword

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