TONY BARTA Research Associate, La Trobe University, Australia
DORIS L. BERGEN Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
DONALD BLOXHAM Reader in History, University of Edinburgh, UK
ALFRED A. CAVE Professor of History, University of Toledo, USA
ANN CURTHOYS Manning Clark Professor of History, Australian National University, Australia
VEENA DAS Kriger-Eisenhower Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, USA
JOHN DOCKER Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia
FATMA MÜGE GÖÇEK Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
ROBERT M. HAYDEN Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public& International Affairs and Director of the Center for Russian& East European Studies at, University of Pittsburgh, USA
ROBERT K. HITCHCOCK Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
ADAM JONES Visiting Fellow, Yale Genocide Studies Program, USA
BEN KIERNAN A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Professor of International and Area Studies at Yale University, USA
THOMAS E. KOPERSKI Humanities Researcher and Postgraduate student, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
JEAN-LOUIS MARGOLIN Senior Lecturer in History, University of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France
A. DIRK MOSES Lecturer in History, University of Sydney, Australia
DAVID MOSHMAN Professorof Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska, USA
VICTORIA SANFORD Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA
WILLIAM A. SCHABAS Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
DAN STONE Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
SCOTT STRAUS Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
IAN TALBOT Director of the Centre for Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, University of Southampton, UK
ROBERT VAN KRIEKEN Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, Australia
ANTON WEISS-WENDT Centre for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities Olso, Norway
NICOLAS WERTH Director of Research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France
JÜRGEN ZIMMERER Lecturer in International History, University of Sheffield, UK

An indispensable guide to the development of the emerging discipline of genocide studies and the only available assessment of the historical literature pertaining to genocides

Introduction; [...] PART I: CONCEPTS Defining Genocide; A.Curthoys& J.Docker Problems of Comparative Genocide Scholarship; [...]-Wendt Conceptions of Genocide and Perceptions of History; D.Moshman Collective Violence and the Shifting Categories of Communal Riots, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide; [...] Cultural Genocide in Australia; [...] Krieken Genocide and Modernity; A.[...] Religion and Genocide: A Historiographical Survey; D.L.Bergen Gender and Genocide; [...] Prosecuting Genocide; W.Schabas PART II: CASE STUDIES Genocide in the AmericaS; A.[...] Decent Disposal: Australian Historians and the Recovery of Genocide; [...] Colonial Genocide: The Herero and Nama War (1904-1908) in German Southwest Africa and its Significance; J.Zimmerer The Armenian Genocide; D.Bloxham& F.M.Göçek The Holocaust and its Historiography; [...] The Crimes of the Stalinist Regime: Outline for an Inventory and Classification; [...] The Partition of India; I.Talbot Mao's China: The Worst Non-Genocidal Regime?; J-L.Margolin Documentation Delayed, Justice Denied: The Historiography of the Cambodian Genocide; B.Kiernan Mass Killings and Images of Genocide in Bosnia, 1941-45 and 1992-95; R.M.Hayden The Historiography of the Rwandan Genocide; S.Straus !Si Hubo Genocidio in Guatemala! Yes There Was Genocide in Guatemala!; V.Sanford Genocides of Indigenous Peoples; R.K.Hitchcock& T.E.Koperski