The Origins of Genocide (eBook, PDF)

Raphael Lemkin as a historian of mass violence
Redaktion: Schaller, Dominik J.; Zimmerer, Jürgen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This year the United Nations celebrate the 60th anniversary of the "Genocide Convention". This volume for the first time analyses the historical scholarship of the founding figure of the convention, Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317990420
• Artikelnr.: 57100662

Autorenporträt

Dominik J. Schaller is Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research and Assistant Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Jurgen Zimmerer is Editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. he is also Reader in International History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From the Editor: Lemkin Redux: in quest of a word
2. From the Guest Editors: Raphael Lemkin: the "founder of the United
Nation's Genocide Convention" as a historian of mass violence
3. Raphael Lemkin and the international debate on the punishment of war
crimes (1919-1948) Daniel Marc Segesser and Myriam Gessler
4. What you see before your eyes: documenting Raphael Lemkin's life by
exploring his archival Papers, 1900-1959 Tanya Elder
5. Raphael Lemkin as historian of genocide in the Americas Michael A.
Mcdonnell and A. Dirk Moses
6. Raphael Lemkin's view of European colonial rule in Africa: between
condemnation and admiration Dominik J. Schaller
7. Raphael Lemkin on the Holocaust Dan Stone
8. Hostage of politics: Raphael Lemkin on "Soviet genocide" Anton
Weiss-wendt