The specter of genocide : mass murder in historical perspective / editedby Robert Gellately, Ben Kiernan.

Introduction. The mass murder and genocide / Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan -- Pt. I. Genocide and modernity. Twentieth century genocides: underlying ideological themes from Armenia to East Timor / Ben Kiernan -- The modernity of genocides: war, race, and revolution in the twentieth century / Eric D. Weitz --Seeking the roots of modern genocide: on the macro- and microhistory of mass murder / Omer Bartov -- Genocide and the body politic in the time of modernity / Marie Fleming -- Pt. II. Indigenous peoples and colonial issues. Genocides of indigenous peoples: rhetoric of human rights / Elazar Barkan -- Military culture and the production of "final solutions" in the colonies: the example of Wilhelminian Germany / Isabel V. Hull -- "Encirclement and annihilation": the Indonesian occupation of East Timor / John G. Taylor -- Pt. III. The era of the two World Wars. Under cover of war: the Armenian genocide in the context of total war / Jay Winter -- The mechanism of a mass crime: the great terror in the SovietU