The sources are given on the right hand side.
Rummel is the most exhaustive researcher known to me in all areas of government sanctioned murder.
If you have better sources than the ones he used, I'm certain he would appreciate your contacting him.
You wrote:
“The low estimate for all inquisitions from line 36 is 251,000 - middle estimate is 350,000 and the high is 477,000.”
And yet the correct number is less than 15,000. That is simply a fact according to all reputable historians who actually examined the original sources.
“The sources are given on the right hand side.”
None of them are original sources and many of them have no reputable attribution for where they are getting their numbers. There has been a ton of records on the inquisition published in the last century and he’s relying on works by people like Lecky (died around 1900) and Durant (who was publishing in the 1950s) and other who are also simply not reputable scholars?
“Rummel is the most exhaustive researcher known to me in all areas of government sanctioned murder.”
That probably means you haven’t examined better works or authors. What about Laffont? Have you even heard of him? The simple fact is that Rummel was a political scientist pushing an agenda - one I often agree with by the way - and not a careful historian. He simply looked for numbers, the bigger the better. That’s what worked for his theories.
“If you have better sources than the ones he used, I’m certain he would appreciate your contacting him.”
Peters, Kamen, Rawlings and many others are better historians now than Rummel ever will be. Besides, Rummel is retired, almost 79 years old. Most likely the closest he’ll get to publishing historical works will be a follow up to his “alternative history” novels which he gives away for free on the internet.
Democide is a term coined by Professor Rummel and is not widely used so citing him as an expert in the field is understating it, he is the only expert in a field only he occupies. That's the beauty of the internet, isn't it? If you Google long enough you can always find an expert who agrees with you, can't you>
Are you aware that Rummel has published extensively in the Journal of Peace Research that the US, by virtue of its bombing campaigns against Japan and Germany, is among the most egregious practitioners of democide? To quote him; "The United States committed its greatest democide during the Second World War. This was in the indiscriminate area bombing of German and Japanese cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
He is certainly willing to distort and lie about his research when properly motivated. Is that the kind of expert you want to associate with your name?