This volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Introduction 1. 'Your Cruelty is Our Glory': The Roman Persecution of Christians, 64-313 CE 2. 'More Ruthless than the Tyrant, More Bloody than the Executioner': Christianising the Roman Empire and Forging a Theory of Persecution, 313 CE-c.430 CE 3. 'Peace for the Gods of Our Forefathers': Pagans Between Persecution and Forbearance, 313-529 CE 4. 'Slay Them Not': The Medieval Roots of Modern Antisemitism, c.313-1492 5. 'Kill Them All. God Will Know His Own': The Albigensian Crusade and the Persecution of Heretics, 1209-1321 6. 'Some Fantastic Delusion': The Witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe, c.1420-1782 7. 'God's Fire Impressed the Mark of Slavery Upon You': Race and Slavery, c.1450-1888 8. 'How Godly a Deed It Is to Overthrow So Wicked a Race': Genocide and Colonialism, 1492-1908 9. 'More Unpitying than Pestilence or Fire': Genocides in the Ottoman, Russian, and Soviet Empires, 1864-1945 10. 'The Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe': Persecution and the Holocaust, 1933-1945. Conclusion

Gervase Phillips is Principal Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a historian of conflict, persecution, genocide, and slavery. His previous publications include The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513-1550 (1999).