Describes the political situations which have resulted in genocide, shows how technological developments have made massacres more feasible, and discusses the influence of larger nations in fomenting conflict

Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century

History

Kuper, Leo

Kuper, Ieo

World

Yale Univ Pr

A useful study. . . with extensive historical detail. . . . Kuper blames the many genocidal massacres of recent years on the failure of the United Nations and the major powers to enforce the (Genocide) Convention, and he has little difficulty in showing the records to be shabby.”Telford Taylor, The New York Times Book Review Genocide represents the climax of a concern which Leo Kuper has pursued over many years and in many different books. If there were a peace prize for sociologists, it should be awarded to him.”Michael Banton, Times Literary Supplement Perceptive, original, and compelling study. . . Systematic, informative, and wide-ranging. . . . A profound meditation on genocide.”Roger W. Smith, Perspective In this well-written and well-researched comparative study, Kuper examines the massacre of the Armenians by the Turks during World War I, the Holocaust, and other related indifference displayed by the United Nations and the lack of universal public education about genocide.”Alvin R. Sunseri, Library Journal The definitive work on this subject.”Virginia Quarterly Review

Yale University Press

Argues that domestic genocide continues to take place, blames the U.N. for not taking action, and suggests measures for preventing genocide

The Prevention of Genocide

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

African Law: Adaptation and Development

Kuper, Hilda

Africa

University of California Press

The pity of it all: Polarisation of racial and ethnic relations

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Duckworth

South Africa (Hans Wolff Memorial Lecture Series Part 1 Human Rights and Genocide/Part 2 Biography As Interpretation)

Sociology

Indiana Univ.

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