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Lemkin on genocide [electronic resource] / written by Raphael Lemkin ; edited and introduced by Steven Leonard Jacobs.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739145289
  • 0739145282
  • 0739145266
  • 9780739145265
  • 9781283523844
  • 1283523841
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 364.15/109 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6322.7 .L46 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction to the study of genocide -- pt. 2. History of genocide.
Summary: Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term ""genocide"" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials collected here give readers further insight into this singularly courageous man and the issue which consumed him in the aftermath of the Second World War. It is a welcome addition to the library of genocide.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Introduction to the study of genocide -- pt. 2. History of genocide.

Providing an annotated commentary on two unpublished manuscripts written by international law and genocide scholar Raphael Lemkin, Steven L. Jacobs offers a critical introduction to the father of genocide studies. Lemkin coined the term ""genocide"" and was the motivating force behind the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. The materials collected here give readers further insight into this singularly courageous man and the issue which consumed him in the aftermath of the Second World War. It is a welcome addition to the library of genocide.

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