Dictionary of Genocide

It is a sad reflection on the history of the past century that librarians should now require a Dictionary of Genocide, and that, as the authors remark, it has already been preceded by two encyclopaedias on the subject (Charny, 1999; Skelton, 2005, the latter reviewed in these columns (RR 2005/237)). Although it is specified as a dictionary, this does not mean that all its 1,100 entries are merely short definitions, for a significant number of them run to over 500 or even 1,000 words. It aims to include articles not only on the history of...