The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies

by Frank Chalk, Kurt Jonassohn, Professor Kurt Jonassohn

Book Overview

Genocide is not an invention of the twentieth-century, say Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn in this absorbing book, but has occurred throughout history in all parts of the world. This study--the first comprehensive survey of the history and sociology of genocide--presents over two dozen examples of the one-sided mass slaughter of peoples, spanning the centuries from antiquity to the present.

By including political and social groups as potential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300044461
• ISBN13: 9780300044461
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Genocide not the solution

The book is an excellent presentation of genocide through history, but it does not deal with cases of genocide where the uprooting or indigenous population is done through a policy of long-term attrition designed to change the demographic structure of a geographical space by the implementation of policies whose purpose-by making their life miserable through confiscation of landm desroying social strucures, hampering free circulation and propaganda deshumanizing them, deligimitmizing political revendicationsm etc.is to force the local population to empty the country. A state in the middle east has been particularly successfull in the emplemetation of this policiy for the last 62 yearsm with the unconditional military and political support of all the great democraties in the world. But censorshipm however water-proof it is will not do the job of totally suppressing the legitimate rights of the original people, even if the other party claims a divine right to this country.

Our evil side

This anthology begins with an analysis of genocide, specifically how the authors/editors defined it and decided which historical acts were genocidal and which were not. It the includes readings covering 1,000 years of gruesome history. More a souce book than an analytical monograph.