Genocide and gross human rights violations in comparative perspective / Kurt Jonassohn with Karin Solveig Bjornson
- Bib ID:
- 1929474
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jonassohn, Kurt
- Description:
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- New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c1998
- xiv, 338 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 1560003146 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- 0765804174 (alkaline paper) (paper)
- Summary:
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"Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations offers actual studies of genocide in India, China, Colonial Africa, the Soviet Union, Burma, and the former Yugoslavia. Beyond narrating the most horrendous atrocities, the book focuses on the nature of gross human rights violations and genocides, and how best to stop them. Jonassohn formulates a typology that distinguishes events that have different origins, occur in different situations, and follow different processes. This work is motivated by the hope that it might be possible to reduce the number of genocides and to intervene in those that do occur."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. 1. Thinking about Contemporary Concepts and Their Historical Background. 1. What is Genocide? 2. A Conceptual Perspective. 3. Hunger as a Low-Technology Weapon: With Special Reference to Genocide. 4. The Tragic Circle of Famine, Genocide, and Refugees. 5. The Consequences of Ideological Genocides and Their Role in Prevention. 6. Some Antecedents of the Holocaust Denial Literature. 7. On Jewish Resistance: An Essay on Perceptions. 8. Prevention without Prediction. 9. Rethinking the Conceptualization of Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations. 10. On the Prevention of Unpunished Crimes. 11. A Summation
- Pt. 2. Methods in Comparative Research on Genocide. 12. Preliminary Considerations. 13. The Language of Data. 14. Sources of Data. 15. Kinds of Data for Contemporary Cases. 16. Quality of Data
- Pt. 3. Revisiting the Past. 17. Pre-Twentieth-Century Perpetrators. 18. Perpetrators in India. 19. Perpetrators in China. 20. Perpetrators in Colonial Africa.
- 21. More Twentieth-Century Cases. 22. The Relevance of History for the Case of the Former Yugoslavia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bjornson, Karin Solveig
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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