Genocide and the Modern Age

ISIDOR WALLIMANN is Lecturer in sociology at the School of Social Work in Basel, Switzerland.MICHAEL N. DOBKOWSKI is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

• Acknowledgments Introduction by Isidor Walliman and Michael N. Dobkowski Part I--Conceptualizing, Classifying, Defining and Explaining Genocide: Some Macro Perspectives A Typology of Genocide and Some Implications for the Human Rights Agenda by Kurt Jonassohn and Frank Chalk Human Destructiveness and Politics: The Twentieth Century as an Age of Genocide by Roger W. Smith The Etiology of Genocides by Barbara Harff Genocide and the Reconstruction of Social Theory: Observations on the Exclusivity of Collective Death by Irving Louis Horowitz Genocide, The Holocaust, and Triage by John K. Roth Genocide and Total War: A Preliminary Comparison by Eric Markusen Social Madness by Ronald Aronson Part II--Understanding Occurrences of Genocide: Some Case Studies and Investigations of Related Social Processes Was the Holocaust Unique? A Peculiar Question? by Alan Rosenberg The Holocaust and Historical Explanation by Robert G.L. Waite Discrimination, Persecution, Theft, and Murder under Color of Law: The Totalitarian Corruption of the German Legal System, 1933-1945 by Gunter W. Remmling Relations of Genocide: Land and Lives in the Colonization of Australia by Tony Barta Middleman Minorities and Genocide by Walter P. Zenner Afterword: Genocide and Civilization by Richard Rubenstein Bibliographical Essay About the Contributors