Genocide: A History

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Pearson Education, 2004 - 322 pages
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Genocide is a topic beset by ambiguities over meaning and double standards. In this stimulating and gripping history, William Rubinstein sets out to clarify the meaning of the term genocide and its historical evolution, and provides a working definition that informs the rest of the book. He makes the important argument that each instance of genocide is best understood within a particular historical framework and provides an original chronology of these distinct frameworks. In the final part of the book he critically examines a number of alleged past and recent genocides: from native Americans, slavery, the Irish famine, homosexuals and gypsies in the Nazi concentration camps, Yugoslavia, Rwanda through to the claims of pro-lifers and anti-abortionists.

 

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Table des matières

Genocide in history
1
Genocide in premodern societies
11
Genocide in the Colonial Age 14921914
45
Genocide in the Age of Totalitarianism 191479
125
Genocide in the era of ethnic cleansing and
257
Outlawing genocide and the lessons of history
305
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and
314
Index
317
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Page 115 - Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (Boston: Little, Brown, 1974); Eugene Genovese, Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974); Herbert G. Gutman, Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of "Time on the Cross" (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975).
Page 314 - The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and punish.
Page 260 - The three Governments having considered the question in all its aspects, recognize that the transfer to Germany of German populations, or elements thereof, remaining in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, will have to be undertaken. They agree that any transfers that take place should be effected in an orderly and humane manner.
Page 314 - December 1946 that genocide is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world, Recognizing that at all periods of history...
Page 314 - Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge, international co-operation is required...

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À propos de l'auteur (2004)

William D. Rubinstein is at the University of Aberystwyth and has written The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis (Routledge, 1997).

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