Genocide: history
03 Oct 1994 12:01Starting with the Armenians and Assyrians in +XX. --- Or rather, say, with the Huguenots. Or the Albigensians. Or with the victims of the Assyrians so many hundreds of years B.C. Or...
Are we in fact any more likely to try to exterminate people than our ancestors were, or are we just better at it?
- To read:
- Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley, Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder [Blurb, ch. 1]
- Robert E. Conot, Justice at Nuremberg
- Robert Jay Lifton. The Genocidal Mentality
- Rieff, Slaughterhouse
- Samuel Totten, William S. Parsons + Israel W. Charny (eds.), Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views [Review by Danny Yee]
- Thomas A. Valentino, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
- Weitz, A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation
