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 : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 |
Umfang: | xii, 338 p. |
Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISBN: | 9781137427373 |
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.