Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin So...
Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin So...
Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin Solveig Björnson.
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Publisher
New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c1998.
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N304.663/6
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 338 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Thinking about Contemporary Concepts and Their Historical Background. 1. What is Genocide? 2. A Conceptual Perspective. 3. Hunger as a Low-Technology Weapon: With Special Reference to Genocide. 4. The Tragic Circle of Famine, Genocide, and Refugees. 5. The Consequences of Ideological Genocide...
21. More Twentieth-Century Cases. 22. The Relevance of History for the Case of the Former Yugoslavia.
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Publisher
New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c1998.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c1998.
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Summary
"Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations offers actual studies of genocide in India, China, Colonial Africa, the Soviet Union, Burma, and the former Yugoslavia. Beyond narrating the most horrendous atrocities, the book focuses on the nature of gross human rights violations and genocides, and how best to stop them. Jonassohn formulates a typology...
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Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin Solveig Björnson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1998.
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N304.663/6
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74VvdOjl70Wd
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ISBN
0765804174 (paper)
9781560003144 (cloth : alk. paper)
1560003146 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780765804174 (paper : alk. paper)
0765804174 (paper : alk. paper)
9781560003144 (cloth)
1560003146 (cloth)
9780765804174 (paper)
DDC
304.663
MMS ID
991005862379702626
