| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 507 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
Genocide of the Hereros / Jon Bridgman and Leslie J. Worley -- The Armenian genocide / Rouben Paul Adalian -- Soviet man-made famine in Ukraine / James E. Mace -- Holocaust : the genocide of the Jews / Donald L. Niewyk -- Holocaust : the Gypsies / Sybil Milton -- Holocaust : the genocide of the disabled peoples / Hugh Gregory Gallagher -- The Indonesian massacres / Robert Cribb -- Genocide in East Timor / James Dunn -- Genocide in Bangladesh / Rounaq Jahan -- The Burundi genocide / Ren Lemarchand -- The Cambodian genocide : 1975-1979 / Ben Kiernan -- The Anfal Operations in Iraqi Kurdistan / Michiel Leezenberg -- The Rwandan genocide / Ren Lemarchand -- Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Martin Mennecke and Eric Markusen -- Genocide in Kosovo? / Martin Mennecke -- Out of that darkness : responding to genocide in the 21st century / Jerry Fowler -- The intervention and prevention of genocide : where there is the political will, there is a way / Samuel Totten |
| Summary |
Through powerful first-person accounts, scholarly analyses and historical data, Century of Genocide takes on the task of explaining how and why genocides have been perpetrated throughout the course of the twentieth century. The book assembles a group of international scholars to discuss the causes, results, and ramifications of these genocides: from the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire; to the Jews, Romani, and the mentally and physically handicapped during the Holocaust; and genocides in East Timor, Bangladesh, and Cambodia. The second edition has been fully updated and featu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Genocide -- History -- 20th century
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Crimes against humanity -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Modern.
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Crimes against humanity
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Genocide
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Völkermord
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Judenvernichtung
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Genocide.
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Ooggetuigen.
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Misdrijven tegen de mensheid.
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Génocide -- 20e siècle.
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Crimes contre l'humanité -- 20e siècle.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Totten, Samuel
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Parsons, William S.
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Charny, Israel W.
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| ISBN |
0203495691 |
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9780203495698 |
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0415944295 |
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9780415944298 |
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0415944309 |
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9780415944304 |
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9786610095926 |
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6610095922 |
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