Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the United Nations 'Genocide Convention', this volume analyses the historical scholarship of the founding figure of the convention, Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959).
Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the United Nations 'Genocide Convention', this volume analyses the historical scholarship of the foundi...
Though envisioned by its overseers as a "model state," German Southwest Africa never became the success story colonial officials hoped for. Despite the immiseration they inflicted upon the indigenous population-from exploitative labor practices to genocidal violence-the colony lasted only thirty-five years and yielded little for the metropole before being lost to the British Empire. In this now-classic study-available here for the first time in English-the author provides an indispensable account of how German colonial ambitions foundered in what is present-day Namibia. As he shows, the...
Though envisioned by its overseers as a "model state," German Southwest Africa never became the success story colonial officials hoped for. Despite th...
