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Raphael Lemkin and the struggle for the Genocide Convention /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cooper, John, 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Subjects:
Genocide > History > Case studies.
Genocide > Prevention > Case studies.
Genocide > Congresses.
Lemkin, Raphael, > 1900-1959.
Human rights workers > Poland > Biography.
Human rights workers > United States > Biography.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide > (1948 December 9)
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Table of Contents:
  • Formative years in Poland
  • Escape from Poland
  • Early years in the United States
  • The publication of his master work and the Nuremberg Trial
  • 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
  • The international 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.