Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention

Titel: Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention / John Cooper
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke ˜[u.a.]œ : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Umfang: VII, 338 S. ; 22cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0230516912 ; 9780230516915
Lokale Klassifikation: 2 L 1452 ; 1 12 J ; 26 12 J ; 1 7 O ; 1 7 Nk

This book is the first complete biography of Raphael Lemkin, the father of the United Nations Genocide Convention, based on his papers; and shows how his campaign for an international treaty succeeded. In addition, the book covers Lemkin's inauguration of the historical study of past genocides.