Genocide: A Thematic Approach. Porter, Porter, Cox, 9781839998393 New**

Name: Genocide: A Thematic Approach. Porter, Porter, Cox, 9781839998393 New**
Brand: Anthem Press

Anthem Press

The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. Most students who register for a course on Genocide assume that it will focus, perhaps exclusively, on the Holocaust\u2014the case with which they are most familiar. Many of them have read Elie Wiesel\u2019s eloquent masterpiece Night in secondary school, and some may have read The Diary of Anne Frank. A few students might even know that a genocide occurred in Rwanda or Darfur. Like most people, however, they equate genocide simply with mass killing, and assume that genocide must by definition entail millions of deaths. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word \u201Cgenocide\u201D\u2014meaning literally \u201Cto kill a people\u201D\u2014 originally defined it \u201Ca colonial crime of\n\nGenocide: A Thematic Approach\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services;