Genocide

Holocaust

Bartov, Omer. (1996)  Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation. New York: Oxford University Press. Call No. 940.5318072 B29M

Benz, Wolfgang. (1999)  The Holocaust: A German Historian Examines the Genocide. New York : Columbia University Press. Call No. 940.5318 B479h

Bloxham, Donald. (2001) Genocide on Trial: The War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust History and Memory. New York: Oxford University Press. Call No. 341.690268 B657g

Breitman, Richard. (1991) The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. New York: Knopf. Call No. 943.086 H658YB

Breitman, Richard. (1998) Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew. New York: Hill and Wang. Call No. 940.54 B835o

Can It Happen Again?: Chronicles of the Holocaust. (1995) New York: Black Dog & Leventhal. Call No. 940.5318 C212

Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz: Philosophical Challenges. (2000) Amherst, NY : Humanity Books. Call No. 940.5318 C761pa

Fein, Helen. (1979) Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization during the Holocaust. New York: Free Press. Call no. 940.5315 F299A

Friedlander, Henry. (1995) The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. Call No. 943.086 F9110, also E-book: http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=13964

Grobman, Alex, ed. (1983) Genocide, Critical Issues of the Holocaust: A Companion Volume to the Film, Genocide.  Chappaqua, NY: Rossel Books.  Call No. 940.5315 G335

Hilberg, Raul. (1979) The Destruction of the European Jews. New York: Harper & Row. Call No. 943.086 H641d 1979

The Holocaust and other Genocides : History, Representation, Ethics. (1993) Nashville Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press.  Call No. 940.5318 H754g

Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide. (2001) 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Call No. 940.5318072 I73

Katz, Steven T. (1994) The Holocaust in Historical Context: The Holocaust and Mass Death Before the Modern Age. New York: Oxford University Press. Call No. 940.5318 K19h

Lerner, Richard M. (1992) Final Solutions: Biology, Prejudice and Genocide. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. Call No. 304.5L616F

Melson, Robert. (1992) Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  Call No. 956.62023 M528R

Rhodes, Richard. (2002) Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. New York: A. A. Knopf. Call No. 940.5318 R477m

The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. (2001) Amsterdam: Rodopi.  Call No. 940.5318 T396

Ronayne, Peter. (2001) Never Again?: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Since the Holocaust. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Call No. 364.1510904 R768n

Simpson, Christopher. (1993) The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. New York: Grove Press.  Call No. 327.73 S613S

Spector, Robert M. (2005) World Without Civilization: Mass Murder and the Holocaust, History and Analysis. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. Call No. 940.5318 S741w (2 vols.)

Staub, Ervin. (1989) The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.  Call No. 304.663 S798R

Traverso, Enzo (1999) Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz. London; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press.  Call No. 940.5318 T781u

Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust. (2002) New York : Oxford University Press. Call No. 940.5318 U55

Wiesenthal, Simon. (1998) The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. New York: Schocken Books. Call No. 179.7 W651s

Genocide in the World

Ardenne-van der Hoeven, Agnes. (2006) Explaining Darfur: Four Lectures on the Ongoing Genocide. Amsterdam: Vossiuspers UvA. Call No. 962.7 E96

Akcam, Taner. (2005) Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility. New York: Metropolitan Books. Call No. 956.62015 A313s

Cheadle, Don and John Prendergast. (2007) Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond. New York: Hyperion. Call No. 962.704 C514n

Dallaire, Romeo. (2005) Shake Hands With the Devil: the Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. New York: Carroll & Graf. Call No. 967.57104 D144s

Daly, M.W. (2007) Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Call No. 962.4043 D153d

Defying Genocide: Choices that Saved Lives. (2006) Washington, DC: US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Call No. VIDEO 967.571043 D316

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. (2005) Detroit: Macmillan Reference. Call No. R 304.66303 E56

Fein, Helen. Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide. (2007) Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. Call No. 323.49 F299h

Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide. (2005) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Call No. 179.7 G335

Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives. (2006) New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Call No. 364.151 G335

Ghosts of Rwanda. (2004) PBS Video. Call No. VIDEO 967.57104 G427

Gourevitch, Philip. (1998) We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Call No. 364.1510967 G714W

Grant, R.G. (1999) Genocide. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn. Call No. CL 304.663 G

Hinton, Alex Laban. (2005) Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide. Berkeley: University of California Press. Call No. 959.6042 H666w, also E-book: http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=119342

Holocaust and Genocide Studies (periodical). Available through Project Muse: http://proxy.elmhurst.edu/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hgs/

Hotel Rwanda: Bringing the True Story of an African Hero to Film. (2005) New York: Newmarket Press. Call No. 976.57104 H832

Jones, Adam. (2006) Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. New York: Routledge. Call No. 304.663 J76g

Kiernan, Ben. (2007) Blood and Soil: a World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. New Haven: Yale University Press. Call No. 304.663 K47b

Khan, Shaharyar M. (2000) The Shallow Graves of Rwanda. London: I.B. Tauris Publishers. Call No. 967.57104 K45s

Kressel, Neil J. (2002) Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press. E-book: http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=71204

Kuper, Leo. (1981) Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Call No. 364.151 K96G

Mamdani, Mahmood. (2001) When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Call No. 967.57104 M263

Mann, Michael (2005) The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. New York: Cambridge University Press. Call No. 304.663 M282d

Melvern, Linda. (2000) A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide. London: Zed Books. Call No. 967.57104 M531p

Minow, Martha. (1998) Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence. Boston: Beacon Press. E-book: http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=44357

Moore, MariJo (ed). (2006) Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. Call No. 323.1197 E14

Mushikiwabo, Louise. (2006) Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines. New York: St. Martin's Press. Call No. 967.57104 M987r

Porter, Jack Nusan. (1982) Genocide and Human Rights: A Global Anthology.  Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. Call No. 305.8 G335

Power, Samantha. (2003) Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. New York: Perennial. Call No. 304.663 P887p

Prunier, Gerard. (2005) Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Call No. 962.7 P972d

Rubenstein, William D. (2004) Genocide: a History. New York: Pearson Longman. Call No. 364.151 R896g

Sanford, Victoria. (2003) Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Call No. 972.8105 S217b

Sells, Michael A. (1998) The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of California Press. E-book: http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=9229

Short, Philip. (2005) Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. New York: Henry Holt. Call No. 959.6042 S559p

The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. (2003) Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Call No. 304.66309 S741

Straus, Scott. (2006) The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Call No. 967.57104 S912o

Tatz, Colin. (2003) With Intent to Destroy: Reflecting on Genocide. New York: Verso.  Call No. 304.663 T221w

Totten, Samuel and Paul R. Bartrop. (2008) Dictionary of Genocide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Call No. R 304.66303 T719d

Tuhabonye, Gilbert. (2006) This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith and Forgiveness. New York: Amistad. Call No. 967.57204 T915t

Umutesi, Marie Béatrice. (2004) Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Call No. 305.906914 U53s

Weitz, Eric D. (2003) A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Call No. 364.1510904 W436c

Witnessing Darfur. (2005) Washington, DC: US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Call No. VIDEO 962.7 W825

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