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Record Nr.

UNISA996248166103316

Autore

Power Samantha

Titolo

A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide / / Samantha Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Basic Books, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-465-05089-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (656 pages)

Disciplina

364.1510904

Soggetti

Genocide - History - 20th century

United States Foreign relations 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [575]-587) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. "Race murder" -- 2. "A crime without a name" -- 3. Crime with a name -- 4. Lemkin's law -- 5. "Amost lethal pair of foes" -- 6. Cambodia : "helpless giant" -- 7. Speaking loudly and looking for a stick -- 8. Iraq : "human rights and chemical weapons use aside" -- 9. Bosnia : "no more than witnesses at a funeral" -- 10. Rwanda : "mostly in a listening mode" -- 11. Srebrenica : "Getting creamed" -- 12. Kosovo : a dog and a fight -- 13. Lemkin's courtroom legacy -- 14. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America failed to prevent or stop 20th-century campaigns to exterminate Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Bosnians, and Rwandans .