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Power Samantha |
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A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide / / Samantha Power |
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New York, NY : , : Basic Books, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (656 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Genocide - History - 20th century |
United States Foreign relations 20th century |
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Formato |
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. [575]-587) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 . |
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