Selected Bibliography

Online resources used, cited or disputed in The Great Big Book of Horrible Things

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(All these links were valid as off March 2011)


Adams, Cecil

Anders, Wladyslaw, and Antonio Munoz. “Russian Volunteers in the German Wehrmacht in WWII,” http://www.feldgrau.com/rvol.html.

Argentina Human Rights Information, http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/argentina.html.

Atkinson, Chris. “Thirty Years War,” http://www.pipeline.com/~cwa/TYWHome.htm.

Balbi, Gaspero, Voyage to Pegu, and Observations There, Circa 1583 (SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2003,), http://www.soas.ac.uk/sbbr/editions/file64288.pdf

BBC News

Biello, David, “Rise and Fall of Chinese Dynasties Tied to Changes in Rainfall,” Scientific American, November 7, 2008, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=monsoon-climate-change-chinese .

Bos, Joan, Joan’s Mad Monarch Series

Boyce, Nell, “Hugh Thompson: Reviled Then Honored for His Actions at My Lai,” U.S. News & World Report, August 20, 2001, http://www.usnews.com/usnews/doubleissue/heroes/thompson.htm .

Branford, Becky, “History Echoes in the Mines of Potosi,” BBC News Online, October 18, 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3740134.stm

Buehler, Lester K. “A Study of the Taiping Rebellion,” http://www.olemiss.edu/courses/inst203/taiping.txt.

Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. “Background Note: Democratic Republic of the Congo,” October 8, 2010, http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2823.htm

Carol Clark, “Kim Jong Il: ‘Dear Leader’ or Demon?” CNN Interactive, 2001, http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/korea/story/leader/kim.jong.il/.

Cassius Dio, Roman History (Loeb Classical Library edition, 1925), 69.14,  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/69*.html.

Catholic Encyclopedia, “Japanese Martyrs,” http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09744a.htm.

Center of Military History. “The Korean War, 1950–1953,” in American Military History. Washington, DC: United States Army, 1989. Available at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/AMH/AMH-25.htm .

Churchill, Winston S

“Clavijo’s Embassy to Tamerlane,” http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/clavijo/cltxt1.html.

Conetta, Carl, “The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict,” Project on Defense Alternatives, Research Monograph no. 8, October 20, 2003, http://www.comw.org/pda/0310rm8.html .

Conservapedia, “Homosexuality in Nazi Germany”, http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality_in_Nazi_Germany

Cook, Edgar L., and John E. Gordon, “Accidental Trauma,” in John Boyd Coates Jr., Preventative Medicine in World War II, http://history.amedd.army.mil/booksdocs/wwii/PrsnlHlthMsrs/chapter7.htm , p. 247

Daggett, Stephen, “Costs of Major U.S. Wars”, Congressional Research Service Report for Congress (RS22926) updated 24 July 2008, http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/costs_of_major_us_wars.htm

Dares of Phrygia, History of the Fall of Troy,  Theoi Classical E-Texts Library, http://www.theoi.com/Text/DaresPhrygius.html

de Crespigny, Rafe

Dykman, J. T. “The Soviet Experience in World War Two,” http://www.eisenhowerinstitute.org/about/living_history/wwii_soviet_experience.dot

Fisman, Ray, “Diamonds Are a Guerrilla’s Best Friend: Why Was War Good for Angola’s Big Miners?” Slate, August 17, 2007, http://www.slate.com/id/2172333 .

Fox, William F., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865 (1889), available at http://www.civilwarhome.com/foxs.htm  

French, Howard W. “Kagame’s Hidden War in the Congo.” New York Review of Books, September 24, 2009, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23054 .

Frontline: The Gulf War, “Iraqi Death Toll,” PBS, January 9, 1996, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/appendix/death.html

Gibbon, Edward. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. by Henry Hart Milman, New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1845 edition, available at http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/gibbon/index.htm

Gilbert, Joshua  “The Goguryeo-Sui Wars.” Armchair General, November 4, 2007, http://www.armchairgeneral.com/the-goguryeo-sui-wars.htm .

GlobalSecurity.org,

Grau, Lester W. “The Soviet-Afghan War: A Superpower Mired in the Mountains.” Journal of Slavic Military Studies 17, no. 1 (March 2004), http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/miredinmount.htm

Greenberg, David, “Know Thy Allies,” Slate, May 10, 2005, http://www.slate.com/id/2118394/.

Grubin, David, “Napoleon at War,” Napoleon, http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_war/campaign/page_13.html.

Haggerty, Richard A., ed., “François Duvalier 1957–71,” in A Country Study: Haiti (Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, research completed December 1989), http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/httoc.html .

Halsall, Paul, ed. Sources for the Three Slave Revolts, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/3slaverevolttexts.htm.

Harner, Michael. “The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice.” Natural History 86, no. 4 (April 1977), pp. 46–51. Available at http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/aztecs/sacrifice.htm .

Haub, Carl, “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?” Population Today, November/December 2002, http://www.prb.org/articles/2002/howmanypeoplehaveeverlivedonearth.aspx

Hirst, David. “Saddam Hussein: Brutal and Opportunist Dictator of Iraq, He Wreaked Havoc on His Country, the Middle East and the World.” Guardian, December 30, 2006, http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1980293,00.html .

Historia Augusta

Hitler, Adolf, “Letter from the Western Front,” February 1915, at The Holocaust Project, Humanitas International, http://www.humanitas-international.org/holocaust/hepplett.htm.

Hollway, Don. “Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Breitenfeld.” Military History (February 1996). Available at http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/17_18_century/3030301.html .

Human Rights Watch

International Rescue Committee. “Congo Crisis,” http://www.theirc.org/special-reports/congo-forgotten-crisis.

Johnson, Kimberly, “1600 Eruption Led to Global Cooling, Social Unrest,” National Geographic News, April 29, 2008, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080429-peru-volcano.html .

Lahmeyer, Jan, “CHINA: Provinces Population,” Population Statistics, http://www.populstat.info/Asia/chinap.htm

“The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom,” in Modern History Sourcebook: The Taiping Rebellion, 1851–1864, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/taiping.html.

Lei Hai-tsung. “The Warring States,” originally published in typescript by the War Area Service Corps, Kunming, March 1943, http://www.sfu.ca/davidlamcentre/nacrp/articles/leihaizong/leihaizong.html  

Lendering, Jona, “Messianic Claimants (18) Simon ben Kosiba (132–135 CE),” Livius.org, http://www.livius.org/men-mh/messiah/messianic_claimants17.html.

Leonard, Andrew. “The ‘History War’ in Northeast Asia.” Salon, March 14, 2007, http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/03/14/history_wars/print.html .

Linden, Eugene. “The Global Famine of 1877 and 1899.” Globalist, September 6, 2006, http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=5516

Linder, Doug, “An Introduction to the My Lai Courts-Martial,” Famous Trials, 1999, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/Myl_intro.html .

Matray, James I. “Revisiting Korea: Exposing Myths of the Forgotten War.” Prologue Magazine 34, no. 2 (Summer 2002). Available at http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2002/summer/korean-myths-1.html .

Mayell, Hillary. “Genghis Khan a Prolific Lover, DNA Data Implies.” National Geographic, February 14, 2003, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html .

McDougall, Alan. “Dirty Hands: Atrocities of World War I.” Channel 4, 2002, http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/c-d/dirtyhands.html .

McKnight, Michael. “Goguryeo: Ancient Kingdom, Modern Passions.” Invest Korea Journal, January–February 2008, http://www.investkorea.org/InvestKoreaWar/work/journal/content/content_main.jsp?code=4540408 .

Michael D. Sallah and Mitch Weiss, “Rogue GIs Unleashed Wave of Terror in Central Highlands,” Toledo Blade, October 19, 2003, available at http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2004-Investigative-Reporting

Miller, Kelly. Kelly Miller’s History of the World War for Human Rights, 1919. Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19179/19179-h/19179-h.htm.

Moran, Melanie, and Mimi Koumenalis, “Royal Massacre Site Discovered in Ruins on Ancient Maya City,” November 18, 2005, http://www.exploration.vanderbilt.edu/print/pdfs/news/news_maya_massacre.pdf

MSN Encarta Encyclopedia, “China,” p. 20, http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761573055_20/China.html

NPR, “Radio Expeditions: Coltan Mining and Eastern Congo’s Gorillas.” December 20, 2001, http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2001/dec/20011220.coltan.html .

O’Hehir, Andrew, “John Woo on ‘Red Cliff’ and the Rise of Chinawood,” Salon, November 18, 2009, http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/11/18/john_woo/index.html .

Parenti, Christian. “Back to the Motherland: Cuba in Africa.” Monthly Review, June 2003, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0603parenti.htm

Paterculus, C. Velleius, The Roman History, Loeb Classical Library, 1924

PBS

Pipes, Daniel. “A Border Adrift: Origins of the Iraq-Iran War,” 1983, http://www.danielpipes.org/article/164 .

Plotz, David, “The Bible’s Most Hideous War Crime,” Slate, August 23, 2006, http://www.slate.com/id/2146473/entry/2148272/.

Plutarch, Parallel Lives, New York: G.P. Putnam, Loeb Classical Library edition, multiple years http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/home.html

Prasad, J. Durga . History of the Andhras up to 1565 A. D. Guntur: P. G. Publishers, 1988, http://www.katragadda.com/articles/HistoryOfTheAndhras.pdf

Procopius, “How Justinian Killed a Trillion People,” in The Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, available at Medieval Sourcebook, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.html

“Prosecutor Accuses Bashir Forces of Murder, Rape, Pillage,” allAfrica.com, March 2, 2009, http://allafrica.com/stories/200903020185.html

Republic of Liberia, Truth and Reconciliation Committee, Final Report: vol. 1: Preliminary Findings and Determinations (2009), p. 44. http://www.trcofliberia.org/reports/final/volume-one_layout-1.pdf

Ricci, Gabriel R., “Introduction,” in Cultural Landscapes: Religion and Public Life, vol. 35, http://www.etown.edu/History.aspx?topic=Introduction+to+volume+35

Richard Hooker, World Civilizations, Washington State University, 1996, http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/TEXT/chememp.rtf.

Roth, Ken, “War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention,” Human Rights Watch, January 2004, http://www.hrw.org/wr2k4/3.htm, estimates 250,000

Rummel, Rudolph J. Statistics of Democide, http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills .

Sarkees, Correlates of War Project, http://www.correlatesofwar.org/cow2%20data/WarData/InterState/Inter-State%20War%20Participants%20(V%203-0).csv.

Sarkees, Meredith Reid. “The Correlates of War Data on War: An Update to 1997.” Conflict Management and Peace Science 18, no. 1 (2000), pp. 123–144, http://www.correlatesofwar.org/cow2 data/WarData/IntraState/Intra-State War Format (V 3-0).htm .

Sewell, Robert. A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India. Project Gutenberg, 2002. Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3310/pg3310.html

Simkin, John, Spartacus Educational

Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, book 4, ch. 5,  para. 44. available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm

Sommerville, J. P. “Russia’s Time of Troubles.” Seventeenth Century Europe, Spring 2006, http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/351/351-10.htm

Stearns, Peter N., ed., The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 6th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), http://www.bartleby.com/67/370.html.

Steele, Jonathan, and Suzanne Goldenberg, “What Is the Real Death Toll in Iraq?” Guardian, March 19, 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/19/iraq

Stoldt, Hans-Ulrich, “Revenge on Ethnic Germans: Czech Town Divided over How to Commemorate 1945 Massacre,” Spiegel Online, September 4, 2009, http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,646757,00.html .

Suellentrop, Chris, “What’s Osama Talking About?” Slate, October 8, 2001, http://www.slate.com/id/1008411 .

Tavernise, Sabrina, “Nearly a Million Genocide Victims, Covered in a Cloak of Amnesia,” New York Times, March 8, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/world/europe/09turkey.html.

Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR), Conflict-Related Deaths in Timor-Leste: 1974–1999, http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/updateFiles/english/CONFLICT-RELATED%20DEATHS.pdf

Trostsky, Leon, My Life (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,1930), p. 323, available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1930-lif/1930-lif.pdf .

Trueman, Chris. France in the Sixteenth Century: French Wars of Religion. History Learning Site, 2000–2007, http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/FWR.htm.

Turchin, Peter, “Dynamical Feedbacks between Population Growth and Sociopolitical Instability in Agrarian States,” Structure and Dynamics, 1, no. 1 (2005), http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0d17g8g9.

TV Tropes, “Romance of the Three Kingdoms,” http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms

Uhalley, Stephen, Jr. “The Taipings at Ningpo: The Significance of a Forgotten Event.” Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 11 (1971), http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/44/4401204.pdf

Vecamer, Arvo L. “A Germany-Soviet Military-Economic Comparison,” http://www.feldgrau.com/econo.html.

Watkins, Thayer, “The Catastrophic Dam Failures in China in August 1975,” http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/aug1975.htm

Welch, Matt. “The Politics of Dead Children: Have Sanctions against Iraq Murdered Millions?” Reason, March 2002, http://www.reason.com/news/show/28346.html

White, Matthew, Necrometrics

Williams, Jeremy, “ ‘Kill ’em All’: American Military Conduct in the Korean War.” BBC History, January 2, 2002, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_usa_01.shtml

Xenophon, Hellenica,translation by H. G. Dakyns, book 2, chapter 2, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1174/1174-h/1174-h.htm