Essays on genocide and humanitarian intervention / / Guenter Lewy
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| Autore: |
Lewy Guenter <1923->
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| Titolo: |
Essays on genocide and humanitarian intervention / / Guenter Lewy
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| Pubblicazione: | Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 364.151 |
| Soggetto topico: | Genocide |
| Genocide - Prevention | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Can there be genocide without the intent to commit genocide? -- Gypsies and Jews under the Nazis -- Himmler and the "racially pure gypsies" -- Did the United States commit genocide against the Indians? -- The first genocide of the twentieth century? -- The case for the Armenian genocide reexamined -- Pacifism and the just revolution -- The case for humanitarian intervention. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The essays in this book, written over a span of some twenty years but updated for this publication, discuss episodes of mass murder that are often considered instances of genocide: the large-scale killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during World War I, the near-extinction of North America's Indian population, the vicious persecution. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Essays on genocide and humanitarian intervention |
| ISBN: | 1-60781-187-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910958085503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Utah series in Middle East studies.