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See also the complete Table of Contents for Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction.
| Genocide in prehistory, antiquity, and early modernity | Naming genocide: Raphael Lemkin |
Defining genocide: The UN Convention | Bounding genocide: Comparative genocide studies |
Contested cases | Is genocide ever justified? |
| Introduction | Origins | The turn to mass murder | Debating the Holocaust |
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