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Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin So...

Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparati...

Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin So...

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Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin Solveig Björnson.

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Full title

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

Record Identifier

74VvdOjl70Wd

MMS ID

991005862379702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

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.

Publication information

Publisher

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c1998.

Place of Publication

New Jersey

Date Published

c1998.

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Scope and Contents

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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Full title

Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin Solveig Björnson.

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General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Date Copyright

c1998.

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N304.663/6

Record Identifier

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

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