Raphael Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide / / Douglas Irvin-Erickson.
Raphaël Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the word "genocide" in the winter of 1942 and led a movement in the United Nations to outlaw the crime, setting his sights on reimagining human rights institutions and humanitarian law after World War II. After the UN adopted the Convention on the Preventi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Youth, 1900-1932
- Chapter 2. The League of Nations Years, 1933-1939
- Chapter 3. Writing Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, 1939-1944
- Chapter 4. Axis Rule in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Chapter 5. The Nuremberg Years, 1944-1946
- Chapter 6. The United Nations Years, 1946-1948
- Chapter 7. The Final Years, 1948-1959
- Conclusion. The Crime of Crimes
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments