Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn.
The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

PART I. THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Introduction. The Brutishness of the Past and Collective Denial. Genocide: Origins of a Concept. A Review of the Literature. The Definition of Genocide. Some Preconditions for Genocide. A Typology of Genocide. A Historical Summary. On Methods of Research and the Imputation of Motives. Appendixes to Part I: A. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. B. U.S. Senate Ratification of the UN Genocide Convention. C. The Definition of Genocide in the Canadian Criminal Code. D. The Definition of Genocide in the Criminal Code of the United States.

PART II. CASE STUDIES

Introduction. On Cases from Antiquity.

Melos; Thucydides: The Melian Debate.

Carthage; B. H. Warmington: The City of Carthage.

The Empire of the Mongols; J. J. Saunders: The Mongol Conquests.

The Albigensian Crusades and the Knights of the Temple; Joseph R. Strayer:The Albigensian Crusades: Background. Malise Ruthven: The Albigensian Crusade. and The Knights of the Temple.

The Christians in Japan; Mikiso Hane: The Christians in Japan: Background. and George Sansom: Foreign Relations.

The Witch-Hunt in Europe; Christina Larner The Witch-Hunt in Scotland and Demonic Witchcraft and the Law.

Indians of the Americas, 1492-1789; Gary Nash: Cultures Meet in Seventeenth Century New England and Douglas Edward Leach: A Puritan View of the Indians: Captain Wait Winthrop’s Poem.

Indians of the United States in the Nineteenth Century.

The Tasmanians; James Morris: The Final Solution Down Under.

The Zulu Under Shaka; Eugene Victor Walter: The Terror under Shaka.

The Hereros of South-West Africa (Namibia); Horst Drechsler: The Herero Uprising.

The Armenians in Turkey; Richard G. Hovannisian: The Historical Dimension of the Armenian Question, 1878-1923. and Robert Melson: Provocation or Nationalism?

The USSR Under Stalin; Robert Conquest: No Grain of Pity. and Khrushchev’s Secret Speech on Stalin’s Crimes. and Anton Antonov- Ovseyenko: The Time of Stalin. and Robert Conquest: Casualty Figures.

The Holocaust; The Holocaust as the Ultimate Ideological Genocide. and The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: Neglected Aspects and their Consequences. and Eugen Kogon: The Training of the Nazi Elite. Michael R. Marrus: Hitler’s Antisemitism.and Yehuda Bauer: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy 1933-1938. George L. Mosse: Eugenics and Race Theory in Practice. Raul Hilberg: The Anatomy of the Holocaust. and Gabrielle Tyrnauer: "Mastering the Past": Germans and Gypsies.

Indonesia;

Burundi; Stanley Meisler: Holocaust in Burundi, 1972.

Bangladesh;

Cambodia;

East Timor;

Indians of the Amazon;

Some Consequences of Genocide for the People of the Perpetrator States;

The Unites States Ratifies the Genocide Convention, by Leo Kuper

PART III. BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Introduction. Conceptual and Background Materials. Antiquity. The Armenians in Turkey. Bangladesh. Burundi. Cambodia. Carthage and Rome. The Hereros. Heresies, Witch-Hunts, and the Inquisition. The Holocaust. The Indians of Canada and the United States. The Indians of the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America. Indonesia. Iran. Japan. Melos. The Mongols. Nigeria. Oceania. Sri Lanka. Sudan. The USSR. The Zulu under Shaka. Prediction and Prevention