Genocide
(see also Holocaust, Rwanda)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
UN Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (12/9/48).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Prevent Genocide International.
In the Library: Articles
Dadrian, Vahakn N. "Genocide as a problem of national & international law: the World War I Armenian case & its contemporary legal ramifications," Yale Journal of International Law 14,2 (1989): 221-334.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Alvarez, Alex. Governments, Citizens, & Genocide (Bloomington, 2001).
Bardakjian, Kevork B. Hitler & the Armenian Genocide (Cambridge MA: Zoryan Institute, 1985).
Bartov, Omer. Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide & Modern Identity (NY: Oxford, 2000).
Chalk, Prank & Kurt Jonassohn. The History & Sociology of Genocide: Analyses & Case Studies (New Haven: Yale, 1990).
Chamy, Israel, W. (ed.) Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review
(3 vols.; NY: Facts on File, 1988-94).
__________. How Can We Commit the Unthinkable? Genocide, the Human Cancer
(Boulder: Westview, 1982).
Dobkowski, Michael N. & Isidor Wallimann. Genocide in Our Time: An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions (Ann Arbor: Pierian, 1992).
Gellately, Robert & Ben Kiernan (eds.) The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective (NY: Cambridge, 2003).
Glass, James M. Life Unworthy of Life: Racial Phobia & Mass Murder in Hitler's Germany (NY: Basic Books, 1997).
Horowitz, lrving Louis. Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power (New
Brunswick NJ: Transaction, 1982).
Hovannisian, Richard G. (ed.) The Armenian Genocide in Perspective
(New Brunswick NJ:
Transaction, 1986).
__________. (ed.) The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics
(NY: St. Martin's, 1992).
Libaridian, Gerard (ed.) Crime of Silence: The Armenian Genocide. Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (London: Zed, 1985).
Lorey, David E. & William H. Beezley (eds.) Genocide, Collective Violence, & Popular Memory: The Politics of Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002).
Melson, Robert. Revolution & Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian
Genocide & the Holocaust (Chicago: U. Chicago, 1992).
Minow, Martha. Between Vengeance & Forgiveness. Facing History after
Genocide & Mass Violence (Boston, 1998).
Moore, Barrington. Moral Purity and Persecution in History (Princeton: Princeton, 2000).
Power, Samantha. "A Problem from Hell": America & the Age of Genocide (NY: Basic Books, 2002).
Staub, Ervin. The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide & Other Group Violence (NY: Cambridge, 1989).
Strozier, Charles B. & Michael Flynn (eds.) Genocide, War, & Human Survival (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).
Ternon, Yves. The Armenians: History of a Genocide (Delmar, NY: Caravan Books, 1981).
Wallimann, lsidor & Michael N. Dobkowski. Genocide & the Modern Age: Etiology & Case Studies of Mass Death (Westport CT: Greenwood, 1987).
Weitz, Eric D. A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race & Nation (Princeton: Princeton, 2003).
Wilshire, Bruce. Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities (Lanham MD: Lexington, 2004). Germany, 19th-c. California, Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda.