Genocide in the Middle East
Subtitle: the Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan
By: Hannibal Travis
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9781594604362
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before "genocide" : the evolution of a law to regulate armed conflict; title: From "barbarism" to "genocide" : outlawing mass murder; title: A crime against all : legal and theoretical approaches to genocide; title: Civilizing "idolatrous people" : religion and genocide; title: "Pillaged mercilessly" : the birth of the Arab and Turkish empires; title: "A gigantic plundering scheme" : the genocide of the Ottoman Armenians; title: "Native Christians massacred" : the genocide of the Ottoman and Persian Assyrians; title: "A virgin field" : the genocide of the Anatolian Greeks; title: "Great schemes" : the Middle East from Lausanne to World War II; title: The elimination of Asiatic influence : genocide in World War II; title: "The greatest danger" : Cold War genocides; title: "We razed their houses": the Anfal campaign; title: Death by "resource curse" : post-Cold War genocides; title: "Imagine" : genocide in southern Sudan; title: Sudan liberation : genocide and response in Darfur and eastern Chad; title: Denying the "other" : Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and genocidal terrorism; title: "Mass extermination" in Iraq : at what stage genocide?; title: "An effective remedy" : prosecutions or reparations?