The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, eds. (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 406 pp., cloth 65.00, pbk. 22.99. Final Solutions: Mass Killings and Genocide in the 20th Century, Benjamin A. Valentino (Ithaca, NY; London: Cornell University Press, 2004), 336 pp., 29.95
The twentieth was a century of violence in which states often murdered defenseless citizens in large numbers. Revolutions, guerrilla-led insurrections, anti-colonial conflicts, and terrorism emerged to contend for state power and contribute their own atrocities. It was an “age of extremes” in the wo...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Review |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2005
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Año: 2005, Volumen: 19, Número: 2, Páginas: 317-321 |
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| Sumario: | The twentieth was a century of violence in which states often murdered defenseless citizens in large numbers. Revolutions, guerrilla-led insurrections, anti-colonial conflicts, and terrorism emerged to contend for state power and contribute their own atrocities. It was an “age of extremes” in the words of one well known historian, an age that gave us the term “genocide” (coined near the end of World War II by the Polish Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin). Since that time an estimated 22 million people have died in various kinds of conflicts., However, it is significant that Japan still refuses to show contrition for atrocities committed during World War II. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dci034 |