Is the Holocaust Unique? - Perspectives on Comparative Genocide

Informationen zum Autor Alan S Rosenbaum Klappentext This book is a daring compilation of contemporary academic thinking about the Holocaust in a comparative perspective, so that in the process it also concerns, and in some cases also presents, important new information about other cases of genocide. Zusammenfassung Contributors assess highly charged and fundamental questions about the Holocaust: Is it unique? How can it be compared with other instances of genocide? What constitutes genocide, and how should the international community respond? The third edition brings this volume up to date. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Foreword, Israel W. Charny * 1. The Ethics of Uniqueness, John K. Roth * 2. Religion and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust, Richard L. Rubenstein * 3. From the Holocaust: Some Legal and Moral Implications, Richard J. Goldstone * 4. The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension, Steven T. Katz * 5. Responses to the Porrajmos: The Romani Holocaust, Ian Hancock * 6. The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis, Seymour Drescher * 7. The Armenian Genocide as Precursor and Prototype of Twentieth-Century Genocide, Robert F. Melson * 8. The Comparative Aspects of the Armenian and Jewish Cases of Genocide: A Sociohistorical Perspective, Vahakn N. Dadrian * 9. Stalinist Terror and the Question of Genocide: The Great Famine, Barbara B. Green * 10. The Holocaust and the Japanese Atrocities, Kinue Tokudome * 11. The Holocaust, Rwanda and the Category of Genocide, Jerry Fowler * 12. Hitler, Pol Pot, and Hutu Power: Common Themes in Genocidal Ideologies, Ben Kiernan * 13. Global Vision: Irans Holocaust Denial, Matthias Kuntzel * 14. The Promise and Limits of Comparison: The Holocaust and the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, Scott Straus * 15. Applying the Lessons of the Holocaust, Shimon Samuels * 16. The Rise and Fall of Metaphor: German Historians and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust, Wulf Kansteiner * 17. Uniqueness as Denial: The Politics of Genocide Scholarship, David E. Stannard...

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• Authors: Alan S Rosenbaum, Alan S. Rosenbaum, Alan S Rosenbaum
• Assisted by: Israel W. Charny (Editor), Alan S Rosenbaum (Editor), Alan S. Rosenbaum (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2009
• EAN: 9780813344065
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-4406-5
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater