Colonial Genocide and Reparations Claims in the 21st Century: The Socio-Legal Context of Claims under International Law by the Herero against Germany for Genocide in Namibia, 1904–1908, Jeremy Sarkin (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2009), ix + 308 pp., cloth 75.00, Kindle eBook 54.00
Since its hundred-year commemoration in 2004, many publications about the war of 1904 to 1908 and the resultant genocide of the Herero population have appeared.1 To academics in the social sciences and humanities the importance of this event is clear, for it shaped future colonial policies and illus...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 491-493 |
| Review of: | Colonial genocide and reparations claims in the 21st century (Westport, Conn. [u.a.] : Praeger Security International, 2009) (Marquardt, Gary)
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| Summary: | Since its hundred-year commemoration in 2004, many publications about the war of 1904 to 1908 and the resultant genocide of the Herero population have appeared.1 To academics in the social sciences and humanities the importance of this event is clear, for it shaped future colonial policies and illustrates pacification practices involved in the scramble for control over Africa. However, this historical chapter is not over: since Namibian independence in 1990, a major push by several of the country's ethnic groups has been under way to hold Germany legally accountable for crimes of the early twentieth century. Until now, no major publication focusing on Namibia has been able to clarify the murky legal terrain associated with the issue of reparations for a pre–World War II genocide. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq057 |
