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Author Nichanian, Marc

Title The Historiographic Perversion
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents The law and the fact: the 1994 campaign -- Between amputation and imputation -- Refutation -- Testimony: from document to monument
Summary Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events. Nichanian's book argues that both law and history fail to contend with the very nature of events for which there is no archive (no documents, no witnesses). Both history and law fail to address the modern reality that events can be-and are now being-perpetrated that depend upon the destruction of the archive, t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Genocide -- Historiography
Historiography -- History -- 20th century
Massacres -- Armenia -- History
Holocaust denial
Witnesses.
HISTORY -- Historiography.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Genocide -- Historiography
Historiography
Holocaust denial
Massacres
Witnesses
Völkermord
Geschichtsschreibung
Wahrheitsermittlung
Armenia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Anidjar, Gil
LC no. 2009000793
ISBN 9780231521628
0231521626