This is a select annotated bibliography of scholarly English language books (including translations) and journal articles about the subject of genocide studies; for bibliographies of genocidal acts or events, please see the See also section for individual articles. A brief selection of English translations of primary sources is included for items related to the development of genocide studies. Book entries may have references to journal articles and reviews as annotations. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below; see Further Reading for several book and chapter-length bibliographies. The External links section contains entries for publicly available materials on the development of genocide studies.
Overview
Inclusion criteria
This bibliography is about the subject of genocide studies; works about the history of acts of genocide are not included. Included works should either be published by an academic or notable publisher, or be authored by an independent notable subject matter expert and have reviews in significant independent scholarly journals. This bibliography specifically excludes self-published works; magazines and newspaper articles; works produced as propaganda; and works produced by non-academic government entities.
Formatting and citation style
This bibliography uses APA style citations. Entries do not use templates; references to reviews and notes for entries do use citation templates. Where books which are only partially related to the subject of genocide are listed, the titles for chapters or sections should be indicated if possible, meaningful, and not excessive.
If a work has been translated into English, the translator should be included and a footnote with appropriate bibliographic information for the original language version should be included.
When listing book titles with alternative English spellings, the form used in the latest published version should be used and the version and relevant bibliographic information noted if it previously was published or reviewed under a different title.
General surveys
Jones, Adam. (2016). Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (3rd edition). Routledge. Shelton D. (2005). Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity. Thomson Gale. Totten, Samuel. Bartrop, Paul R, Jacobs, Steven L. (2008). Dictionary of Genocide. Westport Conn: Greenwood Press. Üngör, U. Ü. (Ed.). (2016). Genocide. Amsterdam University Press.
Topical works
Bachman, J. (2019). The United States and Genocide. Routledge. Bachman, J. (Ed.). (2019). Cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations. Routledge.
Brantlinger, P. (2003). Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 (1st ed.). Cornell University Press.
Campbell, B. (2015). The Geometry of Genocide: A Study in Pure Sociology. University of Virginia Press.
Clarke, A. W. (2012). Rendition to Torture. Rutgers University Press.
Der Matossian, Bedross (2023), ed. Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Feierstein, D., & Town, D. A. (2014). Defining the Concept of Genocide. In Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas (pp. 11–38). Rutgers University Press.
Ginzberg, Eitan (2020) "Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 14: Iss. 2: 122-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.14.2.1666 Available at: Genocide and the Hispanic-American Dilemma
Hennebel, Ludovic, and Thomas Hochmann (eds), Genocide Denials and the Law (2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738922.001.0001 Hiebert, M. S. (2019). Constructing Genocide and Mass Violence: Society, Crisis, Identity. Routledge. Hinton, P. A. L. (Ed.). (2011). Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence. Rutgers University Press. Hitchcock, R. (Ed.). (2011). Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Bibliographic Review (1st ed.). Routledge.
Kuper, Leo (1991). "When Denial Becomes Routine." Social Education 55(2):121–123.
Kiernan, Ben. (2007). Blood and soil: A world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur. Yale University Press. .
Kühne, T. (2010). Belonging and Genocide. Yale University Press.
Mayersen, D. (Ed.). (2016). The United Nations and Genocide: 2016. Palgrave Macmillan. Mcdonnell, Michael A. & Moses, A. Dirk (2005) Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas, Journal of Genocide Research, 7:4, 501-529,