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UNINA9910783791503321 |
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Rosen David M. <1944-> |
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Armies of the young [[electronic resource] ] : child soldiers in war and terrorism / / David M. Rosen |
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New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2005 |
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1-280-36094-1 |
9786610360949 |
0-8135-3783-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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The Rutgers series in childhood studies |
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Child soldiers |
World politics - 20th century |
World politics - 1989- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index. |
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War and childhood -- Fighting for their lives -- Fighting for diamonds -- Fighting for the apocalypse -- The politics of age. |
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Children have served as soldiers throughout history. They fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War, and in both world wars. They served as uniformed soldiers, camouflaged insurgents, and even suicide bombers. Indeed, the first U.S. soldier to be killed by hostile fire in the Afghanistan war was shot in ambush by a fourteen-year-old boy. Does this mean that child soldiers are aggressors? Or are they victims? It is a difficult question with no obvious answer, yet in recent years the acceptable answer among humanitarian organizations and contemporary scholars has been resoundingly the latter. These children are most often seen as especially hideous examples of adult criminal exploitation. In this provocative book, David M. Rosen argues that this response vastly oversimplifies the child soldier problem. Drawing on three dramatic examples-from Sierra Leone, Palestine, and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust-Rosen vividly illustrates this controversial view. In each case, he shows that children are not always passive victims, but often make the rational decision that not fighting is worse than fighting. With a critical eye to international law, Armies of the |
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Young urges readers to reconsider the situation of child combatants in light of circumstance and history before adopting uninformed child protectionist views. In the process, Rosen paints a memorable and unsettling picture of the role of children in international conflicts. |
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UNINA9910790007703321 |
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Autore |
Akçam Taner <1953-> |
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The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity : The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire / / Taner Akçam |
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Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 2012 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2015 |
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©2012 |
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1-280-49463-8 |
9786613589866 |
1-4008-4184-4 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (528 p.) |
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Human rights and crimes against humanity |
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Armenian property |
Armenians - Turkey - History - 20th century |
Genocide - Turkey |
Armenian question |
Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 |
Turkey Ethnic relations History 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Ottoman sources and the question of their being purged -- The plan for the homogenization of Anatolia -- The aftermath of the Balkan wars and the "emptying" of eastern Thrace and the Aegean littoral in 1913-14 -- The transformation of Ottoman politics toward the Ottoman Greeks during the First World War -- The initial phase of anti-Armenian policy -- Final steps in the decision-making process -- Interior Ministry documents and the intent to annihilate -- Demographic policy and the annihilation of the Armenians -- Assimilation : the conversion |
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and forced marriage of Christian children -- The question of confiscated Armenian property -- Some official denialist arguments of the Turkish state and documents from the Ottoman Interior Ministry -- Toward a conclusion. |
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Introducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting these previously inaccessible documents along with expert context and analysis, Taner Akçam's most authoritative work to date goes deep inside the bureaucratic machinery of Ottoman Turkey to show how a dying empire embraced genocide and ethnic cleansing. Although the deportation and killing of Armen |
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