Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power |
Contents
New Beginnings | 1 |
Defining Genocide | 11 |
Counting Bodies | 27 |
Collectivizing Death | 47 |
Individualizing Life | 65 |
Democracy Autocracy and Terrorism | 87 |
Human Rights and Personal Responsibilities | 109 |
Bureaucracy and State Power | 127 |
A Natural History of the Holocaust | 253 |
Jewish Survival in a PostHolocaust World | 271 |
Functional and Existential Visions of Genocide | 295 |
Exclusivity and Inclusivity of Collective Death | 317 |
Surviving the Genocidal State | 339 |
Life Death and Sociology | 357 |
Researching Genocide | 365 |
Gauging Genocide | 387 |
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