A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide / / Samantha Power
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| Autore: |
Power Samantha
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| Titolo: |
A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide / / Samantha Power
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Basic Books, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (656 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 364.1510904 |
| Soggetto topico: | Genocide - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations 20th century |
| 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 . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A problem from hell |
| ISBN: | 0-465-05089-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248166103316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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