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Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide ConventionJohn Cooper.
Author:	Cooper, John,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	vii, 338 p.
Subject:	GenocideEncyclopedias.History
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230582736

Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention
Cooper, John,1935-

Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention[electronic resource] /John Cooper. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - vii, 338 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-330) and index.

Formative years in Poland -- Escape from Poland -- Early years in the United States -- The publication of his master work and the NurembergTrial -- The United Nations Resolution on Genocide -- 1947, the first draft of the Convention -- Private life -- Yale and Geneva -- Paris, preliminary discussion of the convention -- The first reading of the Convention -- The Convention is adopted -- Theinternational campaign for ratification of the Convention -- The United States Senate and the Convention -- The Genocide Convention : its supporters and enemies -- The history of genocide -- The history of genocide : case studies -- Closing years.

This is the first comprehensive biography of Raphael Lemkin (1900-59), the man who invented the word genocide and campaigned relentlessly for the United Nations Genocide Convention. Utilising Lemkin's own papers as well as other sources, it contextualises his career, showing how his ideas were formed in the midst of ethnic strife in Eastern Europe and as a member of the international law circuit. The book focuses on thecampaign for a convention orchestrated by Lemkin, dealing both with its supporters and enemies, particularly the British government. While Lemkin drew attention to the need to preserve diverse cultures, both in his campaigning and his historical writing, the Western powers amended the convention, so that it became an instrument solely for preventing physical genocide.The book also covers Lemkin's historical research on genocide, presenting a number of studies, particularly of colonial genocide.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230582736

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230582736doiSubjects--Personal Names:

474318
Lemkin, Raphael,
1900-1959.Subjects--Uniform Titles:

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(1948)Subjects--Topical Terms:

451621
Genocide
--History--Encyclopedias.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV6322.7 / .C67 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 345/.0251

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