Genocide

ISBN-13: 9780582506015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 330 str.

Prof William D. Rubinstein

Opis

Genocide is a topic beset by ambiguities over meaning and double standards. This book sets out to clarify the meaning of the term genocide and its historical evolution, and provides a working definition. It makes the argument that each instance of genocide is best understood within a particular historical framework.

Spis treści

1. Genocide in History.  2. Genocide in Pre-Modern Societies.  3. Genocide in the Colonial Age, 1492-1914.  3. Genocide in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-79.  5. Genocide in the Era of Ethnic Cleansing and Third World Dictators, 1945-2000.  6. Outlawing Genocide and the Lessons of History.  Appendix: The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.  Index.

O autorze

William D. Rubinstein is at the University of Aberystwyth and has written The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis (Routledge, 1997).