William D. Rubinstein

Genocide

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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 gypsie… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-317-86995-5
EAN: 9781317869955
Produktnummer: 17046072
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 330 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'336 KB

Über den Autor

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).