Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1 A Critical Sociology of Genocide -- 2 Identifying Genocide -- 3 Closing the Theory Gap in the Sociology of Genocide -- 4 Civilizing Genocides and Barbaric Civilization -- PART TWO -- 5 Genocides of Ideological Others in Languedoc and Guatemala -- 6 Genocides of Colonized Others in Tasmania and India -- 7 Genocides of National Others in the Ottoman Empire and Rwanda -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Definitions of Genocide -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.